Oh, dear, dear, dear Kevin. Bless you. You keep us all straight...and
laughing.

Richard Talbot
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From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kevin Mac
Donnell
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 1:33 PM
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Subject: Re: Sam Clemens Walks Into a Bar...

Those old tall tales die hard: mark 1, mark 2, mark tyree, deep 4, no 
bottom... blub, blub, blub...

Anybody who still believes the bar tab nonsense or Mark Twain's Capt Sellers

"confession" should read Guy Cardwell's 1975 article in NEQ 48:2, pp. 
175-93. Anybody who thinks he picked it up off the Mississippi River during 
his steamboating days should ask themselves why Clemens didn't just say that

instead of making up the story about Capt Sellers. Anybody who thinks Twain 
was above fibbing or self-mythologizing needs to read the words of Huck Finn

about Mark Twain's veracity.

Twain wrote to his daughter Jean on Feb 25, 1907 saying he'd fallen on the 
ice just before a reception and ripped his pants wide open and had to stand 
in a reception line with his back to the wall as he greeted a room of 200 
ladies. Jean wrote back a letter of concern to which Twain replied on March 
5 "Oh dear child, what are you talking about? I didn't fall on the ice, I 
only said I did. It is a great difference..."

Kevin
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Copeland" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: Sam Clemens Walks Into a Bar...


> There's an article in the latest True West magazine (September 2013) with 
> t=
> he above title and repeats the argument that the name Mark Twain came from

> =
> ordering drinks in a bar.=20
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> Tom Copeland
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>> Date: Fri=2C 16 Aug 2013 12:39:47 -0500
>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Link to article in Kansas City Star
>> To: [log in to unmask]
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>> Martin Zehr did a fine write-up about my piece for which I want to thank 
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>> m in this very public forum among colleagues.
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>> I hope those whose previous research on Mark Twain are cited in my 
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>> will accept those citations as my way of saying thanks to them for their 
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>> sights and hard work that suggested avenues of research and provided 
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>> us clues that led me to my conclusions --whether or not you even agree 
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>>  my conclusions.
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>> I also hope that those who are not already subscribers to the Mark Twain 
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>> urnal will remedy that grievous oversight. The MTJ deserves the support 
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>> all Twainians.
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>> Here's the link to Martin Zehr's piece in the Kansas City Star: =20
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>> http://www.kansascity.com/2013/08/16/4413137/a-new-theory-seems-the-best=
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>> xplanation.html=20
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>> If the crush of fame becomes overwhelming=2C you will find me hiding=2C 
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>> ys out=2C under a nom de plume that's Twainian=2C yet reflects my Irish 
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>> e--  Begum O'Bengal.=20
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>> Kevin
>> @
>> Mac Donnell Rare Books
>> 9307 Glenlake Drive
>> Austin TX 78730
>> 512-345-4139
>> Member: ABAA=2C ILAB
>> *************************
>> You may browse our books at=20
>> www.macdonnellrarebooks.com
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