Jan
28
Mark Twain’s House, Hartford, CT
Photo by Frank C. Grace (Trig Photography)
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Posts tagged mark twain
Nov
30
Mark Twain’s handwritten manuscript pages of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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Aug
29
1. Mark Twain - “He had his leather bound notebooks custom made according to his own design idea. Each page had a tab; once a page had been used, he would tear off its tab, allowing him to easily find the next blank page for his jottings”
2 & 3. Charles Darwin - “The notebooks were filled with memorandum to himself on things to look further into, questions he wanted to answer, scientific speculations, notes on the many books he was currently reading, natural observations, sketches, and lists of the books he had read and wanted to read. But the progression is far from orderly: the entries are chaotically arranged and wide-ranging; they jump from one scientific subject to the next and are interspersed with notes on correspondences and conversations. He would rest the notebook on his desk and write horizontally down the page with a pen, and, like Isaac Newton, he would sometimes start in from both ends of the notebook at once and work towards the middle.
4. Jack Kerouac - The notebook entry reads:
“Ginsberg — intelligent enuf, interested in the outward appearance & pose of great things, intelligent enuf to know where to find them, but once there he acts like Jerry Newman, the photographer anxious to be photographed photographing —— Ginsberg wants to run his hand up the backs of people, for this he gives and seldom takes — He is also a mental screwball
*(Tape recorder anxious to be tape recorded tape recording) (like Seymour Barab anxious to have his name in larger letters than Robert Louis Stevenson, like Steinberg & Verlaine Rimbaud Baudelaire”
5. Ernest Hemingway - The notebook entry reads:
“My name is Ernest Miller Hemingway
I was born on July 21, 1899
My favorite authors are Kipling, O. Henry and Steuart Edward White.
My favorite flower is lady slipper and tiger lily.
My favorite sports are trout fishing, hiking, shooting, football and boxing.
My favorite studies are English, zoology and chemistry.
I intend to travel and write.”
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Jul
13
“I think it a proof of the healthy, moral, financial, and mental condition of the community if it taxes itself for its mental food.”
Mark Twain, in defense of the public library. (via The Guardian)
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Jan
10
Apocryphal Mark Twain Quotations (He Never Said It)
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Originally said by Benjamin Disrael, attributed in Mark Twain’s Autobiography
“To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times”
“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.”
Originally said by Edgar Wilson Nye
” So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldn’t find honest employment.”
“The finest congress money can buy.”
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
All the more reason to read books carefully in their entirety, and question popular attributions at all times. I think it was Ray Bradbury who said in the future everything will be factoids, we’ll know the dates of Napoleon but not who he was. But, don’t be afraid to check if he really did say that….
Jan
9
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Jim was monstrous proud about it, and he got so he wouldn’t hardly notice the other hipsters. Hipsters would come miles to hear Jim tell about it, and he was more looked up to than any hipster in that country. Strange hipsters would stand with their mouths open and look him all over, same as if he was a wonder. Hipsters is always talking about witches in the dark by the kitchen fire; but whenever one was talking and letting on to know all about such things, Jim would happen in and say, “Hm! What you know ‘bout witches?” and that hipster was corked up and had to take a back seat.
Jim always kept that five-center piece round his neck with a string, and said it was a charm the devil give to him with his own hands, and told him he could cure anybody with it and fetch witches whenever he wanted to just by saying to it; but he never told what it was he said to it. Hipsters would come from all around there and give Jim anything they had, just for a sight of that piece; but they wouldn’t touch it, because the devil had had his hands on it
”
A classroom-friendly version of Mark Twain’s classic novel, with every occurrence of the N-word replaced by the word “hipster.” Thanks to editor Richard Grayson, the adventures of Huckleberry Finn are now neither offensive nor uncool.
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“Thanks to editor Richard Grayson.” Huh.
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Will bowdlerizing Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn attract more readers?
from Reader’s Almanac, The Official Blog of the Library of America
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