Twain also shared Keith Richard's love of African-American music -- 
altho in Twain's case it was the "Negro spirituals" of his day and in 
Richards' (and all the Stones') case it was Chicago blues. Although I do 
think Twain would have been shocked and dismayed at the degree of 
Richards' debauchery, however. 
--Steve Hoffman

Martin D. Zehr wrote:
> Twain would have undoubtedly considered Keith Richards a kindred spirit.=A0=
>  Consider this quote, long available from any of the editions of the Autobi=
> ography:
> =A0
> I have always felt friendly toward Satan. Of course that is ancestral; it m=
> ust be in the blood, for I could not have originated it.
> =A0
> Twain would have appreciated the bow to family connections in the great Jag=
> ger/Richards composition, "Sympathy for the Devil."
> =A0
> 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 =3DA0;)
> --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,=
> =3D
> =3D3D
> 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=
> =3D
> =3D3D
> list. Come on, people! 19 bucks on Amazon gets you, what Adam Gopnik of th=
> =3D
> =3D3D
> e New Yorker recently described as, "a reshuffling of the same deck of dict=
> =3D
> =3D3D
> ated and written fragments and pieces published in the last decades of Twai=
> =3D
> =3D3D
> n's life (slightly altered here by Twain's revising hand and ostensibly in =
> =3D
> =3D3D
> his intended order)."
>
> ;)=3DA0 =3DA0 [indicating jest]
>
> Seriously, for 19 bucks everyone I know is getting this as their Christmas =
> =3D
> =3D3D
> present. Forget JZ, GWB, and whoever that Keith Richards guy is.
>
> Alex
>
>
>