List members may be interested in a recent novel by (I think) Martin Amis, The Arrow of Time, which was about a Nazi war criminal--dying on the operating table and suddenly beginning to live his life backwards, knowing nothing about what he had done and eventually figuring it out. Interesting. I "read" it as an audio-book and it was truly disorienting since even conversations happened in reverse occasionally. Wonder what Twain would have thought about it? Dan Walker Commonwealth Governor's School