Joe is correct. I have written an essay almost uncannily similar to what Hal describes. It's called "Mark Twain's Music Box: Livy, Cosmopolitanism, and the Commodity Aesthetic," which will appear in the volume "Cosmopolitan Twain," edited by Ann Ryan and Joe McCullough, forthcoming from University of Missouri Press next month. Hal, if you'd like to see a copy of the essay before that, just let me know. Best, Kerry