dear colleagues, i remember -- or think i remember -- that it was here that years ago sb. came up with the idea of linking Tom Sawyer's "liberality" giving 40 dollars to Jim to the "40 acres and a mule". Can't find it in my archive, nor on the web. anybody with better memory than my poor addled brain? best, w Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck Dept. of English / Centre for Security and Society Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg Rempart St. 15 D-79098 Freiburg Germany