"Hal Bush," indeed.  I've long suspected this entertainer/literary scholar
was using this moniker to disguise a nefarious background, perhaps as the
sixth Marx brother, Halo.

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On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Hal Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> ps:  Twain's era??  Plus, also today -- the list of stage names is
> staggeri=
> ng, and many  if not most of the famous comics of the 20th century up till
> =
> today have made up a stage name either slightly altered from their given
> na=
> me, or else completely different (for ethnic and other reasons...):
>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stage_names
>
> List of stage names - Wikipedia<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_
> stage=
> _names>
> en.wikipedia.org
> This list of stage names lists names used by those in the entertainment
> ind=
> ustry, alphabetically by their stage name's surname, followed by their
> birt=
> h name.
>
>
>
>
> Dr. Hal Bush
>
> Dept. of English
>
> Saint Louis University
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
> 314-977-3616
>
> http://halbush.com
>
> author website:  halbush.com
>
> ________________________________
> From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Martin Zehr
> <mdzehr@=
> GMAIL.COM>
> Sent: Monday, October 2, 2017 9:18:29 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Sam and Henry
>
> Yes, there has already been too much "pop psychoanalysis" in Mark Twain
> criticism, although the phrase itself is a redundancy.  "Splitting"
> personalities seems to me to be a highfalutin attempt to "explain" the
> obvious- that authors and humorists of Twain's era commonly used pseudonyms
> and constructed characters.
> Consider:
>
> David Ross Locke-           Petroleum V. Nasby
> Henry Wheeler Shaw-      Josh Billings
> Charles Farrar Browne-    Artemus Ward
> Robert Henry Newell-       Orpheus C. Kerr
> Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber- Mrs. Partington
> William Wright-                Dan DeQuille
>
> Habit and convention are the most defensible explanations for Sam's
> adoption of the "Twain" brand and character, after trying many others,
> e.g., W. Epaminondas Adrastus Blab, and, as Kevin Mac Donnell has cogently
> argued, even the particular choice of pseudonym was likely "borrowed," from
> Artemus Ward, no less.
>
> Freud was purported to have observed that "Sometimes a cigar is just a
> cigar," and, although he probably didn't say that, it would have been one
> of the few contributions of psychoanalysis to literary criticism worth
> remembering.
> Respectfully,
> Martin Zehr
>
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> On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 6:25 PM, Doug Aldridge <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I don=3D92t know of any study of Sam=3D92s relationship with Henry, and
> a=
> s fa=3D
> > r as I=3D20
> > know his autobiography gives the most insight. But your question got me=
> =3D20=3D
> >
> > thinking. Did Sam=3D92s survivor-guilt after Henry=3D92s death
> contribute=
>  to =3D
> > the=3D20
> > splitting of his personality into the respectable SLC and the irreverent
> =
> =3D
> > MT=3D20
> > as he tried to bring Henry back to life?  In other words, was Henry
> > (the=3D20=3D
> >
> > model for Sid Sawyer in Tom Sawyer) also the model for =3D93S. L.
> > Clemens,=3D94=3D
> > =3D20
> > respectable gentleman and twin of Mark Twain?  Although I think there
> has=
> =3D
> > =3D20
> > already been too much pop psychoanalysis in Mark Twain criticism,
> it=3D92=
> s =3D
> > an=3D20
> > interesting question, although probably, I suspect, an unanswerable
> > one.=3D20=3D
> >
> > Good luck, and I hope this helps. Life intervened in my case, too.
> >
>