As a qualified non-sequitir: If any of you get the chance to see Keith Alan Baker's "Kerouac" - I was pleasantly suprised- lots of great beat poetry by Ginsburg, Burroughs, and the man himself with complimentary jazz rifts- pretty decent stuff. As a sort of JDS thread- Does John Shade in _Pale Fire_ remind anybody else of JDS -ever so slightly, and without matrimonial ties? Dan