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James E Caron
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:33:26 -0800
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TO: The Mark Twain Forum

MLA 2026 Call for Papers

The Mark Twain Circle is soliciting papers for MLA’s 2026 conference in
Toronto. In keeping with the President’s theme of “Family Resemblances,” we
invite papers that explore resemblances within two broad categories,
possibly using these suggestions. Other categories and topics are of course
welcome.

GENRE
autobiography, parable, Realism, gothic, travel narrative, boy books,
burlesque, parody, satire, humorous sketch
IDENTITY
dialect speech, code switching, twins, personae, masking, cross-dressing

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John Greenman
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:07:18 -0500
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I don’t think this went out to the Twain-L!!

John Greenman
207-974-9911

It’s now an audiobook, available from Youtube:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjo8mFWeMHQ
> AND
> Archive.org:
> https://archive.org/details/orionclemens_2502_librivox
>
>
> John Greenman
> 207-974-9911
>
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John Greenman
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 07:20:42 -0500
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It’s now an audiobook, available from Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjo8mFWeMHQ
AND
Archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/orionclemens_2502_librivox

John Greenman
207-974-9911
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Scott Holmes
Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:08:29 -0800
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I've been hacking away on this site for a couple of weeks now and I
think I've got a better version running.  If you've tried to access it
recently you may have noticed some down times and possible error
messages.  These were all due to my lack of knowledge in regards to the
Amazon Web Service systems. Consequently it took some time to figure it
out, and many mistakes.  In case you'd like to keep up to date on my
latest additions and modifications there is an RSS feed available that
summarizes most things from the preceding 30 days.
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John R. Pascal
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:06:40 -0500
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Hello Everyone,

This was sent to me by my administration at Seton Hall Preparatory School today:

"In the never-ending arms race of cheating and catching cheating, the site, TwainGPT <https://www.twaingpt.com/>, can take text produced by AI and "Humanize" it so that Turnitin and GPTZero cannot detect AI at all.”

I wish it known that for almost three years, our English Department has banned the use of AI in all major writing assignments. The essays are done by hand, in a class period.

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