intriguing comparison Paul--the similarities are haunting-- Your conjecture that jds may have seen the movie is not farfetched. I too have read that jds loved the old black and whites. In particular, he was fond of Laurel and Hardy flicks and Thirty Nine Steps. Maynard says that he watched as many as three movies a day-- -- M.E. Pierce Dept. of English/ SFASU http://titan.sfasu.edu/~f_pierceme "and gladly would he lerne, and gladly teche." Chaucer