Has any one "checked" with Laura S-T? I didn't apprehend her posting as satirical; rather, her point (as I understood it) seemed completetly common-sensical. If the point is that scholarship/readership/love of Twain (call it as you like it) does not progress as smoothly as it might when, say, bibliographies aren't up to date, who would attack such a point, and, for heaven's sake, why?