Chris Turkel writes: Yes, kind of like the JRR Tolkien effect; leave plenty of notes so you can publish books for years after you are dead. Well, the problem with that is, taking the Herbert-Anderson Dune prequels as an example, it might be better to will all notes to someone who can actually write something /good/ with them. rone -- {Reagan's} presidency always reminded me of a remark made by a woman to Heywood Broun following Secretariat's victory in the Triple Crown. After the trauma of Vietnam and Watergate, she said, Secretariat had "restored her faith in humanity." I like to think Reagan was the Secretariat of the eighties. - Garry Trudeau