Thanks Hal. Truth be told, I da peevish-feeling man, but I tried to keep 
that out of my comments as best as I could. I'm not being cheeky--I really 
did. Feel free to share my comments as you wish, including with Mr Karlin.

I may be reading between the lines, but to judge by the tone of some of what 
he says, I suspect he may also not like American literature very much, or 
America for that matter. But to draw that conclusion I'd have to read more 
of his writings and I prefer George to Danny Dearest (I saw somewhere that 
he goes by "Danny").

Not being an academic myself, I must ask: Are there a lot of his sort 
running around?

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-----Original Message----- 
From: Hal Bush
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2018 2:57 PM
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Subject: Re: TLS review: recent MT scholarship

Kevin, you da man!

That was great stuff, I'd like to send it to Karlin in fact. I think you are 
correct, he dislikes Twain, plain and simple.  You forgot to mention his 
claim, near the end, that Pudd'nhead is the greatest book (I know there are 
some PW fans on here, but please! at best it ranks in the top 5...).

Very funny, thanks for the post!



Dr. Hal Bush

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Saint Louis University

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