I believe the Twain prize is a good fund raiser for the Kennedy Center.
That's why it was created and it surely fulfills that purpose.

As far as when New Mexico and Arizona became states, I had to look that
up.  It's like those history test I took in school.  I learned all the
facts for the test, aced it, and then promptly forgot it all the next day.
I haven't used algebra in a while either.

I've read Twain's books since I was a child.  It's only since I learned a
lot about his childhood and adult life that I could even begin to take a
guess as to what motivated his humor.  I believe the average person in
America may just be trying to get along and, while they surely know Mark
Twain's name and that he was an author, they aren't into deep psychological
evaluation of his motives.

That's why this group is such a treasure!

Best regards,
Susan

Susan Bailey
Co author
The Twain Shall Meet
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Greenville, SC

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 5:42 AM, DMD1937 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I'm curious to know how list members view the Twain Prize.
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> states, let alone what motivated Twain's humor over many decades.
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> These are complex times, many fools around.
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> Alexandr Romanovich Luria in:
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> New York: Oxford University Press, p. 16.
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> Perhaps Goldberg should have listened to Luria . . .
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