Martha--

I'm not sure what you mean by "thinly veiled," because the comparisons in the thread you're on were fairly explicit.  But in so far as Sam Clemens's activities in business have been a frequently discussed topic, it seems appropriate to make comparisons between his business experiences and Mark Twain's writings about business and finance, on the one hand, and corresponding experience of others, on the other hand--whether those others were his contemporaries, like Carnegie, or are our contemporaries.

As for the vaccine controversy--please share the Twain references you have in mind.

Best,

--LH

Larry Howe
Professor of English & Film Studies
Department of Literature and Languages
Roosevelt University
Editor, Studies in American Humor
President, Mark Twain Circle of America




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Are thinly veiled political posts a regular feature of this forum? I'm new
to it, and I became involved in the hopes of getting leads to new
perspectives on the writings of Mark Twain. I could probably come up with
some passing reference to Mark Twain germane to both sides of say the
vaccine controversy (not revealing which side I am on, or why, though I
suppose saying there is a controversy implies a stance of sorts) but I'm
uncertain what contribution it would make to Mark Twain scholarship.

Martha Sherwood

On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 6:52 AM miki pfeffer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Now that's a comparison we can appreciate!
> Miki Pfeffer
>
> On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 2:49 PM Jim Leonard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Matt--Good work putting that into a perspective that Twain himself would
> > (ruefully) appreciate.   --Jim L.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Matthew
> > Seybold
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2019 3:18 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: The Art of The Deal
> >
> > I feel compelled to convert yesterday’s NYT expose about the President’s
> > tax returns into terms which Twain scholars will comprehend: Over the
> > course of a single decade Donald Trump lost, after adjusting for
> inflation,
> > 269 Paige Typesetters.
> >
> > ***************
> > Matt Seybold
> > Assistant Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies Elmira
> > College Editor, MarkTwainStudies.org MattSeybold.com
> >
>
>
> --
> Miki Pfeffer, Ph D
> *A New Orleans Author in Mark Twain's Court: Letters from Grace King's New
> England Sojourns *(fall 2019)
> *Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the
> 1884 New Orleans World's Fair*
>