I pick one item from a "gratitude list" Hiroko Bush posted last night: "Humpty Dumpty was from a long ago and we now live in a sophisticated age of Tesler and MRI and super well trained medical professionals." Hal is stable, but he isn't waking up. Now we literature people tend to be a bit on the slow side most of the time, but this shouldn't turn into a regular Rip van Winkle... 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