Here is Shelley’s posting without the garbling.

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From: Shelley Fisher Fishkin 
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2018 10:17 AM
To: Mark Twain Forum 
Subject: Re: BOOK REVIEW: _Huckleberry Cookbook_ by Alex & Stephanie Hester

Reading Kevin's intriguing parallels between Twain and Thoreau reminded me of another: in addition to having "lit out for the territory in their literary imaginations” (as Kevin put it) both men lit up something else: hundreds of acres of forest in areas they would later make famous  in their writing. Both men were careless about sparks from campfires they had built to cook some food. Twain inadvertently burned down 200 acres of forest around Lake Tahoe  eight years before he would celebrate that scenery in Innocents Abroad; Thoreau managed to inadvertently burn down 300 acres of Concord Woods the year before he built his cabin alongside the nearby pond he would immortalize in Walden. 

Firefighters at Lake Tahoe have a long memory, as I’ve noted elsewhere:
http://blog.loa.org/2012/07/shelley-fisher-fishkin-on-enduring.html

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  On May 7, 2018, at 6:55 AM, Kevin Mac Donnell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

  Thanks Larry. That Thoreau quote reminds me of what I wrote in an essay on Thoreau (posted in full at the Thoreau Institute website). The connections between Twain and Thoreau don't begin and end with huckleberries. I wrote:

  These two names are not often linked but they are literary kinsman just the same. Both had a sly sense of humor, both lost brothers dear to them in tragic accidents, both rebelled against slavery, both rejected war, and both wrote books that transport the reader down life-changing rivers. They also share the distinction of writing books that resonate so deeply that many readers return throughout their lives to reread them . . . . Mark Twain may have traveled further afield albeit less extensively than Thoreau, quarreled more openly with God, lived larger and ambled across a wider stage, but both lit out for the territory in their literary imaginations and envisioned an America that would someday realize its promise.

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