ounty</i> was set in a rural, small-town environment? <i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i>. Maycomb, Alabama, was where I naturally dropped all of my imagination when it needed a setting. A therapist might help explain why, but there it is. I <i>will</i> say that Opus is really Scout from <i>Mockingbird</i> in many ways. He&rsquo;s a motherless innocent, adrift and wandering about in an adult world of confusion, betrayal, and incivility. We experience it through both their eyes.<br><br>
But don&rsquo;t think for a 