Hello again. This is the same Scott Holmes that was at netcom.com. and am now at a new address with PPP rather than a mere shell account. If you recall, I recently posted on an article, published in Harper's Magazine, by Jane Smiley. The latest issue has some reader responses that I believe Twain-L subscribers will find interesting. One reader suggested that the reason Harper's published the article was they (Harper's) "...are still smarting from Twain's 1871 comment..., that the way to distinguish the educated from the ignorant in Carson City was to ascertain whether their canvas-and-flour-sack walls had `...pictures from Harper's Weekly on them'". Another reader mentioned a caveat included in his edition of Huck Finn (not found in my own copy) about prosecuting, banishing and/or shooting those who attempt to find motives, morals and/or plots in the book. This reader suggested that Smiley was at triple risk. Anyway, for those of you who bothered to read Smiley's diatribe the responses published offer amusing counterpoints. Scott