Did you search through the letters on the Mark Twain Project site?
Arianne Laidlaw


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Hal Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Folks; Again, my thanks to all for the suggestions so far.  The quote is
> not in the SELECTED correspondence; it may be in the full 2 volume set,
> which my library inexplicably does not own (I have requested through ILL).
> Or:  the quote may be from a notebook entry, another letter to another
> correspondent; Or, it may be in a score of other locations; and/or it may
> be a figment, a canard:  for all I know there is no such quote.
>
> I might also point out, as I was reminded by one respondent:  "the club"
> metaphor is common in parental grief narratives.  Bereaved parents often
> use it, as in this NPR coverage a week after the tragedy, and the quote
> from the Columbine HS principal about Newtown's survivors:
>
> "Unfortunately the elementary school in Connecticut now becomes a part of
> this club, a club that we know is tragedy, heartbreak," said DeAngelis, who
> began teaching at Columbine in 1979. "And no one wants to be a part of that
> club, but what we have to do =97 no one asked us to be a part of it =97 but
> now, how do we help each other?"
>
>
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/12/14/167293608/in-grief-stricken-=
> newtown-vigils-and-support-for-victims-and-families
>
> indeed:  "no one wants to be a part of that club."
>
> --=20
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Arianne Laidlaw A '58