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Twain would have sunk a fortune in MySpace. Just saying.
On Jan 23, 2017 11:36 AM, "Jon Kerr" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Its not fiction, just alternative facts!
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> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > What if Twain had been born a century later - same place, but in 1935?
> > Earl=
> > y boyhood memories would have been of WWII, and he would still have been
> > re=
> > latively young and I assume of draft age during the Vietnam War. Would he
> > h=
> > ave dressed like Jimi Hendrix and gone to Woodstock? What would he have
> > wri=
> > tten about Watergate?=20
> > What about Space travel? Would he have been an early adopter of
> computers,
> > =
> > social media, etc.?
> >
> > Perhaps he would have invested in Apple from the outset and been too
> > distra=
> > cted with business matters to write much...
> > If his life span remained the same, he would have died about the time
> > Obama=
> > took office.
> > Of course, it's impossible to know the answers to these things for sure,
> > bu=
> > t a Twainian with a talent for alternative history fiction might be able
> > to=
> > come up with some plausible and interesting scenarios.=C2=A0- B. Clay
> > Shan=
> > non
> >
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