Clay -- thanks.  A number of the AI images I have online were created by
Kent Rasmussen.  His newest collection of Mark Twain stories will be the
first that I am aware of where AI has completely illustrated a Mark Twain
book (except for the cover.)

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781493086139/Mark-Twains-Tales-of-the-Macabre-and-Mysterious

Barb

On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 3:24 PM B. Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Thanks, Barbara! As I googled, I was enjoying some of your AI-generated
> images that accompany Twain's cat quotes.
>
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 1:18 PM Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > "An autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably
> > consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth,
> > partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain
> straight
> > truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the
> > author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested
> > spectator neither it nor its smell (though I didn't use that figure)--the
> > result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily
> > diligences."
> > - Letter to William D. Howells, 14 March 1904
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 3:09 PM B. Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > What is the Mark Twain quote about how an author cannot conceal
> himself;
> > he
> > > reveals himself between the lines; he refers to the writer as "the
> > > author-cat," I think, and talks about him scratching "cat litter" over
> > the
> > > clues to his true nature that he leaves behind (or some such).
> > >
> > > I've been googling my head off but can't find it...
> > >
> > > --
> > > Clay Shannon
> > > (831) 251-4279
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
> Clay Shannon
> (831) 251-4279
>