Did any of you READ this? It's funny.

Bret and Kate Mckay wrote: 
Mark Twain would often [ is twenty years "often"?] summer with his sister
[huh?] who lived in Elmira, New York. Needing a place where he could get
some work done, Twain built himself [who built it? ] a writing hut [hut?
What happened to octagon?] on his sister's [her again] property. Free from
distractions and inspired by the setting, Twain could write in peace and
quiet. In this sanctuary of manliness, ["manliness"? what did Twain say of
it?]  Twain wrote some of his most widely read and manly works: Life on the
Mississippi, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn.

I love how Twain described his man space in an 1874 letter to William Dean
Howells:

    "It is the loveliest [ now THAT'S a manly way to put it!]study you ever
saw.octagonal with a peaked roof, each face filled with a spacious
window.perched in complete isolation on the top of an elevation that
commands leagues of valley and city and retreating ranges of distant blue
hills. It is a cozy nest [yeah, that's manly]and just room in it for a sofa,
table, and three or four chairs, and when the storms sweep down the remote
valley and the lightning flashes [hey, is this guy..]behind the hills beyond
and the rain beats upon the roof over my head-imagine the luxury of it."
[luxury? Cozy? Lovely? This guy sounds more like an interior decorator than
a man cave dweller]

Cheers, Twainiacs.
Rick

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Fred Douglass checking in, too!


On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 6:18 PM, John Bird <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Mark Twain makes the list twice, famous man caves. Serious error about
> Quarry Farm, though:
>
> http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/07/27/famous-man-caves/
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> John Bird
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