What about Colonel Sherburn? He is a man who thinks he is a
gentleman,misinterprets the Gentleman's Code by threatening and challenging
a harmless drunk, shooting the unarmed man in the street, and then
arrogantly browbeats a lynch mob into submission as though their arrival
outside his (presumably white) house had nothing to do with the earlier
incident but was an intrusion upon his right to do as he will, as though he
is a different person from the one who took law into his own hands as the
mob was about to do, a man whose behavior depends upon his circumstances,
not the rights of others.  Others must follow the law; he makes his own.

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Gina Sully <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Colonel Grangerford. They're both narcissistic, demand complete and
> unquestioning loyalty, don't really understand their own hate, and have
> really, really bad taste.
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> On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 11:07 PM, DENNIS KELLY <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > Which Twain character do you think the 45th President can claim as an
> > ancest=
> > or in an upcoming tweet?
> > (Pap is off limits.)
> >
> > Dennis Kelly
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Apr 29, 2017, at 9:14 PM, Sara Willen <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > >=20
> > > Gee, if you send it to Wikileaks, we can read about this in a=20
> > > presidential tweet.
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > >> Hi everyone,
> > >>=20
> > >> This was fabulous, a stunning example of post-factual, post-modern,
> > >> post-prose criticism. I'm working on my own Commentary for the LA
> Times
> > >> now. Let me now what you think:
> > >>=20
> > >> Mark Twain, known less formally as Willa Cather, travelled to the
> United
> > >> States as baby from his native Scotland, accompanied only by his
> > faithful=
> >
> > >> servant, Friday. Soon, he found work as a printer at a small firm in
> > >> California founded by Steve Jobs. He married Steve and they raised
> their
> > >> three boys together, along with their butler, Mr. French (Friday's
> > nephew=
> > ).
> > >> Their adventures were chronicled in the 1960s television series, "My
> > Thre=
> > e
> > >> Sons," starring Andy Griffith and little Ronnie Howard.
> > >>=20
> > >>=20
> > >>=20
> > >> Dr. Ann M. Ryan
> > >> Department of English, Professor and Chair
> > >> The Mark Twain Annual, Editor
> > >> Reilly Hall 339
> > >> Phone: (315) 445-4593
> > >> Fax: (315) 445-4540
> > >>=20
> >
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Chowan University
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