I've received this message from andy hoffman: > I hesitate to say more about the correspondence for fear > people will think I am fixated on 19th century > homosexuality. For those of us indeed fixated on 19th c. homosexuality, please say on. (After all, Anne Rice made her fortune on it.) In "Come Back to the Raft Again, Huck Honey," the legendary _Partisan Review_ essay, Leslie Fiedler -- perhaps informed by James Baldwin -- holds that the appeal of _Huckleberry Finn_ is the discovery of the hidden homoeroticism in archetypical American male-bonding. Fiedler made both his career and his enemy list with that thesis. Do your letters support either Fiedler's career or his enemies? Vicki Richman Bedford, Brooklyn NY