To Mike Dooris: Thanks for the note about David Carkeet's _I Been There Before_. I've been trying to find this book in several libraries without luck, and once I tried to special order it but learned that it was out-of-print. I'll definitely try again, though, this time with the Interlibrary Loans Dept. Since you asked about the interests of people on this list, I'm not a professional Twainian either, but am a grad student in theoretical linguistics of all things. I started this list in order to learn more about Twain in an informal atmosphere, and IMHO it's serving this purpose quite well.... Best regards, Taylor Roberts Univ. of British Columbia