Twain would have undoubtedly considered Keith Richards a kindred spirit. Consider this quote, long available from any of the editions of the Autobiography:
I have always felt friendly toward Satan. Of course that is ancestral; it must be in the blood, for I could not have originated it.
Twain would have appreciated the bow to family connections in the great Jagger/Richards composition, "Sympathy for the Devil."
Martin Zehr
Kansas City
--- On Thu, 12/2/10, Lawrence Howe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Lawrence Howe <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Cigars and whiskey on the ready...
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thursday, December 2, 2010, 9:24 AM
Alex--
Keep your anti-Rolling Stones rants to yourself =A0;)
--LH
--- On Wed, 12/1/10, Effgen, Alex Brink <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Effgen, Alex Brink <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Cigars and whiskey on the ready...
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 8:51 AM
I thought the emoticon of semicolon and close parenthesis indicated a jest,=
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not a rant.
I'm still so new to this digital world.
And for the curious the four books I list as alternatives...
DECISION POINTS, by George W. Bush
UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand
DECODED, by Jay-Z
LIFE, by Keith Richards with James Fox
...are currently ahead of our favorite autobiographer on the New York Times=
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list. Come on, people! 19 bucks on Amazon gets you, what Adam Gopnik of th=
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e New Yorker recently described as, "a reshuffling of the same deck of dict=
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ated and written fragments and pieces published in the last decades of Twai=
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n's life (slightly altered here by Twain's revising hand and ostensibly in =
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his intended order)."
;)=A0 =A0 [indicating jest]
Seriously, for 19 bucks everyone I know is getting this as their Christmas =
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present. Forget JZ, GWB, and whoever that Keith Richards guy is.
Alex
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