Larry, I think I am correct is stating unequivocally that more than a few
on this LIST have already performed that experiment.

More usefully:  the old Hoffman thesis about MT's possible sexual
adventuring in the mining camps and then SF was based to a large extent on
speculations about the "counter-cultures" already at work in those regions.
 What do we actually know about marijuana usage at the same time, and those
same places?  For instance, as the reporter on theatre in SF, I would
imagine that he was at least around the stuff, and knew the smell, etc.

just thinking out loud here, --Hal B.


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Lawrence Howe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Peter--
>
> I don't know if this is true, but it might explain why some of my students
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> claim that Twain reads funnier under certain conditions.  Before anyone on
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> this list performs this experiment oneself,

-- 
Prof. Harold K. Bush
Professor of English
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Saint Louis University
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