Is there a specific citation for the $5.75 fare mentioned in _Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven_. I've gone through the latest Oxford edition of this work and have been unable to locate it. Barb On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, George Kasprzak wrote: > I found this the other day, anyone else seen it? > comments? > > Here is the answer to the question of why the $5.00 and quarters in the > victims pockets. > > Interestingly enough, in 1907, Samuel Langhorne > Clemens, aka Mark Twain, wrote a short story > entitled "Extract from Captain Stormfield's Trip to > Heaven," in which the hero leaves Earth for "an > extended excursion among the heavenly bodies" > on the tail of a comet. > In the story, the hero has his passport on him, > plus five dollars and three 25-cent pieces for the fare. > Many of the Heaven's Gate victims had their > passports on their persons and $5.75 in their hands. > (See New York Post, March 29, 1997, page 6)