OK, that mileage was just a joke. I have no idea how many miles I've
traveled in my lifetime, never mind anyone else.
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-----Original Message-----
From: John H. Muller
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 5:42 PM
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Subject: Re: Query: total mileage for MT?
Mac Donnell's scholarship is without blemish, as far as I'm concerned.
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 6:22 PM, Peter Salwen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm not aware that anyone has done these calculations, but I wouldn't be
> surprised if Kevin Mac Donnell turns out to have the answer.
>
> If you decide to do the computation yourself, be sure to include Twain's
> 47-mile nighttime trek around his & Harris's hotel room (A Tramp Abroad,
> Ch. XIII).
>
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> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 5:23 PM, Hal Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Folks; I'm being asked whether any scholar has totaled up the
> > (approximate=
> > ) number of miles that MT covered in his lifetime? Mississippi,
> > east-west
> > t=
> > ravels in America, the 29 crossings of the Atlantic, the round-the-world
> > tr=
> > ip?
> >
> >
> > Is there any such total -- or even guesstimate -- by an intrepid scholar
> > ou=
> > t there??
> >
> >
> > -hb
> >
> >
> > Dr. Hal Bush
> >
> > Dept. of English
> >
> > Saint Louis University
> >
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > 314-977-3616
> >
> > http://halbush.com
> >
> > author website: halbush.com
> >
>
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