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Re: Gilded Age's quotations
From:
Greg Camfield <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:51:28 -0800
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On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Barbara L. Goodman wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>      I would like to know the prevailing explanation of MT's having used
such
> a varied and exotic collection of quotations at the beginning of each
chapter
> of The Gilded Age.  Barbara L. Goodman
>
Twain and Warner were parodying the prevailing practice of beginning
chapters with quotations.  They upped the ante, so to speak, in showing
off worthless erudition.
                                Gregg Camfield

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