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Its not fiction, just alternative facts!
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> What if Twain had been born a century later - same place, but in 1935?
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> y boyhood memories would have been of WWII, and he would still have been
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> latively young and I assume of draft age during the Vietnam War. Would he
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> ave dressed like Jimi Hendrix and gone to Woodstock? What would he have
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> tten about Watergate?=20
> What about Space travel? Would he have been an early adopter of computers,
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> social media, etc.?
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> Perhaps he would have invested in Apple from the outset and been too
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> cted with business matters to write much...
> If his life span remained the same, he would have died about the time
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> took office.
> Of course, it's impossible to know the answers to these things for sure,
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> t a Twainian with a talent for alternative history fiction might be able
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> come up with some plausible and interesting scenarios.=C2=A0- B. Clay
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> non
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