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	I, too, looked and I, too, wonder if it IS fun to see HOW Twain is still
of interest -- if it really is Twain at all.  I wonder, too, if he needs
to be modernized.  My evidence agrees with Alan Kitty's.

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Bill Cosgrove
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North Dakota State University
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On 2/21/13 6:16 PM, "Alan Kitty" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


>I wonder if Twain is being absorbed or simply dictated and barely
>understood=
>. I've been gathering evidence suggesting the latter is true.
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>On Feb 21, 2013, at 2:23 PM, Arianne <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I looked.  Always fun to see how Twain is
>> still of interest.  THANKS.
>> Arianne
>>=20
>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Andrew Dickson <[log in to unmask]>
>>wrote:=
>
>>=20
>>> So I'm not exactly old but I'm not exactly "Tumblr age" (13-17) either.
>>> However there is a really awesome Tumblr I follow focused around Mark
>>> Twain.  There is a heavy influence of Anime on this Tumblr (which I
>>>find
>>> rather tasteless), due to the age range of this following growing up
>>> alongside an Anime adaptation of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
>>>=20
>>> If you are curious how Mark Twain is being absorbed by today's youth,
>>>tak=
>e
>>> a visit.  Overall, it's a delight:
>>>=20
>>> http://huckyeahmarktwain.tumblr.com/
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>> --=20
>> Arianne Laidlaw A '58
>

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