Yah, well, I mean, trying to reproduce something in the general vicinity of Mark Twain is a biiit intimidating! Especially when the last thing I read of his was Huck Finn in like, gradeschool! Luckily the Internet was there with some snippets of letters and correspondences about his steamboat days. Aaaand also gave me some nice info about parts of the steamboat, etc. I'm like, "Good lord brain, please come up with something involving complex math next time so I won't have to research anything!" Or alien planets; you can't get those wrong.