I have a question about one passage in Life on the Mississippi. I suspect it will be very familiar to many of you. It's the passage where we first get a birds-eye view of a place along the river before Twain narrows his focus to one town, then one street, then one house, then a sleeping man on a porch. Back in grad school, a professor used a term to define this technique of moving from the general to the specific, but I can't figure out now what term he meant. Any ideas? Dr. Wesley Britton Author, Beta-Earth Chronicles www.drwesleybritton.com