Regarding the "Cincinnati" quote: In her recently released book, _Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture_ (Oxford University Press, 1997 {issued November 1996}), Shelley Fisher Fishkin devotes several pages to Twain quotations and misattributions. On pages 133-137, Dr. Fishkin discusses several quotations many of which Mark Twain never said including, unfortunately, "When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times." It is included in a list that the Mark Twain Project compiled of misattributed quotes they are often asked to run down. However, Dr. Fishkin does offer a glimmer of hope for those disappointed that Twain "never said it": "Twain gave so many interviews to so many journalists, and had so many conversations recorded by so many acquaintances, that the jury is always out, so to speak, on these apocryphal attributions. But for the moment, at least, we can't link them to Twain" (136). In her meticulous notes, Dr. Fishkin cites the following: Roland De Wolk, "Twainisms That Ain't: Hannibal Sage Gets Credit for Too Much." _Oakland Tribune_, August 4, 1991, pp. A3-4. See also Ken Kashiwahara, interview with Robert Hirst on "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings," ABC News, Oct. 22, 1991; and Ralph Keyes, "The Twain Syndrome," in _Nice Guys Finish Seventh": False Phrases, Spurious Sayings, and Familiar Misquotations_ (New York: HarperCollins, 1992). KB