Taylor, thanks for your thoughts on this. Having now slept on the review, and reading your response, it occurs to me that the TLS review might also qualify as one of those sassy essays in the "too superior for academic scholarship" genre. Meaning, partly, look at what those silly, abstruse academics are talking about--and HOW they talk about it. Even his response to the edition of the Letters calls it Dr. Hal Bush Dept. of English Saint Louis University [log in to unmask] 314-977-3616 http://halbush.com author website: halbush.com ________________________________ From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Taylor Roberts <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 9:36:38 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: TLS review: recent MT scholarship Ouch! Karlin=E2=80=99s review is stylishly well written, which hurts. As Jac= k Black=E2=80=99s character in the movie Orange County morosely says in resp= onse to an insult: =E2=80=9CHarsh!=E2=80=9D Karlin seems to have good knowledge of MT (aside from death order of daughte= rs + wife), but not much liking for him, and so I guess we shouldn=E2=80=99t= expect much sympathy from the reviewer for MT scholarship targeted to lunat= ics like us=E2=80=94I mean, =E2=80=9Ccompletists,=E2=80=9D which I admit I a= m. I guess Karlin won=E2=80=99t be joining this Forum? :) Take care and hope you had a great Hallowe=E2=80=99en, Taylor > On Oct 31, 2018, at 16:18, Hal Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >=20 > Folks, here is a wide-ranging and entertaining review of a number of recen= t=3D > works on MT (though at times a tad dismissive), published in the latest TL= =3D > S; including some relatively nice things to say about our new edition of t= h=3D > e Twain-Twichell letters. I suppose we can forgive the dismissive tone of= =3D > some of in exchange for being cited in TLS! >=20 >=20 > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.the-2Dtls.co.uk_articles_public_never-2Dshall-2Dmeet-2Dmark-2Dtwain_&d=DwIBAg&c=Pk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=f7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=MyrPV8hfZL8s9DUZqiihe_71cjo-A1JJ022TZpsCm0s&s=Rv2RkYRh4HS9wA8BSOXDqaXavjGMJA30XfnNXzUMSM4&e= >=20 > [https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.the-2Dtls.co.uk_s3_tls-2Dprod_uploads_2018_10_p3-2DKarlin.jpg&d=DwIBAg&c=Pk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=f7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=MyrPV8hfZL8s9DUZqiihe_71cjo-A1JJ022TZpsCm0s&s=GebO_XobdfyXwqEPpJooqajHe3d2Oq1LEh4JVqkaUKc&e=]<http= s=3D > ://https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.the-2Dtls.co.uk_articles_public_never-2Dshall-2Dmeet-2Dmark-2Dtwain_&d=DwIBAg&c=Pk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=f7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=MyrPV8hfZL8s9DUZqiihe_71cjo-A1JJ022TZpsCm0s&s=ia3XnfJnok_rqpTKpnyu5qerKX_1_RdhboVR4PtfHXE&e=> >=20 > The difficulties in dealing with Mark Twain | Daniel Karlin<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.th-3D&d=DwIBAg&c=Pk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=f7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=MyrPV8hfZL8s9DUZqiihe_71cjo-A1JJ022TZpsCm0s&s=4WwMSqEr7HawU8JClIapYT--ZTurFxTvuhuTv4Hy0ag&e= e=3D > -tls.co.uk/articles/public/never-shall-meet-mark-twain/> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.the-2Dtls.co.uk&d=DwIBAg&c=Pk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=f7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=MyrPV8hfZL8s9DUZqiihe_71cjo-A1JJ022TZpsCm0s&s=_UryMCfAQvXMYhXOtwBxUFfvB_7Ko20MZkvqIfLTTeQ&e= > Mark Twain continues to bedevil the academy, if not the reading public. Li= k=3D > e Kipling, he has been by turns reviled and revered, often for the wrong r= e=3D > asons. >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > Dr. Hal Bush >=20 > Dept. of English >=20 > Saint Louis University >=20 > [log in to unmask] >=20 > 314-977-3616 >=20 > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__halbush.com&d=DwIBAg&c=Pk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=f7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=MyrPV8hfZL8s9DUZqiihe_71cjo-A1JJ022TZpsCm0s&s=0gDAcwLcCqm-t9b0dPczC5OgBeRa-wY8rz7On_RONqg&e= >=20 > author website: halbush.com
