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Jon Kerr <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 23 Jan 2017 10:32:33 -0600
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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?
> Earl=
> y boyhood memories would have been of WWII, and he would still have been
> re=
> latively young and I assume of draft age during the Vietnam War. Would he
> h=
> ave dressed like Jimi Hendrix and gone to Woodstock? What would he have
> wri=
> tten about Watergate?=20
> What about Space travel? Would he have been an early adopter of computers,
> =
> social media, etc.?
>
> Perhaps he would have invested in Apple from the outset and been too
> distra=
> cted with business matters to write much...
> If his life span remained the same, he would have died about the time
> Obama=
>  took office.
> Of course, it's impossible to know the answers to these things for sure,
> bu=
> t a Twainian with a talent for alternative history fiction might be able
> to=
>  come up with some plausible and interesting scenarios.=C2=A0- B. Clay
> Shan=
> non
>

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