I would like to second this praise for Jim Zwick's posting. I, too, found Britton's mock-review mean-spirited, juvenile, and misogynistic. In recent months, I have noticed a tendency on the part of a few on this list toward ridicule rather than insightful discussion. I heartily praise those who have largely ignored the increasing petulance of some and have continued actual discussion of Twain's work. I laugh along with Twain, too, but what I have seen here recently hasn't been terribly funny, only pathetic. Chuck Martin