Alan Gribben in MARK TWAIN'S LIBRARY: A RECONSTRUCTION records a volume by
Schopenhauer ESSAYS OF ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -- a translation published in
1892 that was sold in the 1951 sale of Clemens's library. It is listed as
belonging to Jean and Clara. In addition, Gribben also records that
journalist Henry Fisher  also commented on Twain's interest in
Schopenhauer's writings. Whether the volume from the Clemens library has
ever been recovered or examined for marginalia is not documented.

Barb

On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 10:08 AM Dave Davis <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> This one sentence from Arthur Schopenhauer intrigues me:
>
> *Our hesitation before such a colossal thought will perhaps be diminished
> by the recollection... that the ultimate dreamer of the vast life-dream is
> finally, in a certain sense, but one, namely the Will to Live, and that the
> multiplicity of appearances follows from the conditioning effects of time
> and space [the morphogenetic field whereby the Will to Live assumes forms].
> It is one great dream dreamed by a single Being, but in such a way that all
> the dream characters dream too.  *
> --Arthur Schopenhauer, "Transcendental Speculation on Apparent Design in
> the Fate of the Individual,” "  (1851)
>
> (More about that:
> https://harpers.org/2012/02/schopenhauer-causality-and-synchronicity/ )
>
>  It reminds me of the great conclusion of #44, The Mysterious Stranger
> which we all know:
>
> "... "It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no
> universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a
> dream--a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are
> but a thought--a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought,
> wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"
>
> (Actually, the whole of that last, concluding Chapter)
>
>
> I recall that SLC told a correspondent he had never read Nietzsche; but we
> also know that he could get by, reading German, and was in Germany quite a
> bit in the 1890's, when such ideas were in the air there.
>
> Any thoughts? Maybe they both got it from Shakespeare. Ideas float around,
> expression is everything.
>
> DDD
>