If only to compensate for the sensory deprivation, lack of concreteness, etc., of Web communications, perhaps the best citation would be like that of folk tales, where the footnotes come first, as in "When I was about your age, Missy, we used to sit on the stoop and bet on the stickball games, and then one day my uncle Zeke, you know the one, the one who was a real Stalinist, well, he said, ..." We could do something similar, e.g., "Well, back when we stopped going out to meetings, maybe it had something to do with the shutdown of the government and the common sphere of life, or the Blizzard of 1996, or something like that, I leaned back from the glare of the reflected snow and the astonishing quiet of Brooklyn streets, shifted my heating pad (to help cure the distress that came from all that shoveling), and began to recite the web, you know the one that leads outward in all sorts of elegant patterns on snowfilled afternoons, etc." Only kidding, or maybe not! Richard Rabinowitz AMERICAN HISTORY WORKSHOP 588 Seventh Street Brooklyn, NY 11215-3707 Tel: (718) 499-6500 Fax: (718) 499-6575 email: [log in to unmask]