There are some similarities with Colonel Sellers. - B. Clay Shannon

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 Subject: Re: Building Our Own Commentary
   
The King, from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.


Barbara



Barbara Ladd
Professor of English
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
tel: 404 727-7998
fax: 404 727-2605


"Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composu=
re of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans=
 and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the de=
struction of human life."

A. R. Ammons, from his essay =93A Poem Is a Walk=94 (1968).



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Which Twain character do you think the 45th President can claim as an ances=
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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:
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> Gee, if you send it to Wikileaks, we can read about this in a=3D20
> presidential tweet.
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>> Hi everyone,
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>> 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:
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>> Mark Twain, known less formally as Willa Cather, travelled to the United
>> States as baby from his native Scotland, accompanied only by his faithfu=
l=3D

>> 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 nephe=
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).
>> Their adventures were chronicled in the 1960s television series, "My Thr=
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>> Sons," starring Andy Griffith and little Ronnie Howard.
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>> 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
>>=3D20

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