Enjoyed reading your analysis thanks

On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 9:35 AM Martha Sherwood <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Reading the Gilded Age without commentary or abridgement and with the idea
> that the shade of Mark Twain put it in your hands because it is very timely
> isn't a bad substitute. Here is a link to an essay I wrote starting with
> ideas in The Gilded Age and using it as a basis for political commentary on
> my own community of Eugene, Oregon. I read the book in its entirety, in a
> 19th century edition, in a Mark Twain seminar. It was not assigned for the
> class, and secondary sources IMHO misrepresent it.
>
> https://lifeasahuman.com/2019/current-affairs/money-and-economy/the-gilded-age-and-the-mylar-age/
>
> Martha Sherwood
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 11:10 AM John R. Pascal <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Indeed.
> >
> > If Mark Twain were to rewrite The Gilded Age for our time, there would be
> > several Amazon trucks filled with barrels of fountain pen ink delivered
> to
> > 351 Farmington Avenue . . .  each and every week.
> >
> > Also, a pack of experienced bloodhounds wouldn’t be able to find his lost
> > temper at the state of our country and the world.
> >
> > John Pascal
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Feb 14, 2020, at 1:19 PM, L Oggel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Oh, my YES. Barbara is sooo right. Thanks.
> > >
> > > Terry
> > >
> > >> On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 11:50 AM Ladd, Barbara <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I don't know what Twain might say to this, but it would be great if
> only
> > >> he were alive to rewrite The Gilded Age for OUR age.
> > >>
> > >> Barbara Ladd
> > >> ________________________________
> > >> From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of John's Email <
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> > >> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2020 7:01 PM
> > >> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> > >> Subject: [External] "The Day Democracy Died" Sung by The Founding
> > Fathers
> > >>
> > >> Just wondering....
> > >> do you think Sam would’ve promoted/endorsed/approved of... this???
> > >>
> > >> https://youtu.be/-Ue5F57dZMU
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> John Greenman
> > >>
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Arianne Laidlaw A '58