I keep looking for the LIKE button on some of these posts. :)

Susan

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> On Mar 29, 2016, at 7:15 PM, Kevin Mac Donnell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> I can't think of anything Twain wrote about the art of the inside joke, but 
> a good example of an inside joke of his own was the one I dissected in 
> delirious detail in the Mark Twain Journal (52:2; Fall, 2014). Did I forget 
> to mention exactly what that joke was? Nope. To find out, you must pull that 
> issue off the shelf if you already subscribe to the MTJ. If you don't 
> subscribe to the MTJ you can visit their website and repent.
> 
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> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Larry Howe
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 12:09 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Twain on inside jokes?
> 
> ?All--
> 
> 
> A colleague has asked if Twain ever made any reference to the strategy and/=
> or effect of inside jokes.  I couldn't come up with anything offhand.  I fi=
> gured this was the place to seek help.  Any ideas?
> 
> 
> --LH
> 
> 
> Larry Howe
> Professor of English & Film Studies
> Department of Literature and Languages
> Roosevelt University