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"B. Clay Shannon" <[log in to unmask]>
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I used an AI-generated image for each chapter of my novel "Taterskin & The
Eco Defenders"; but that's not a Twain book, of course. This is where I
used the Twain "author-cat" quote in connection with it, though:
https://ramblingnotesofageezer.substack.com/p/in-offense-and-defense-of-taterskin

On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 2:43 PM Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> 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
> >
>


-- 
Clay Shannon
(831) 251-4279

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