Ouch! Karlin’s review is stylishly well written, which hurts. As Jack Black’s character in the movie Orange County morosely says in response to an insult: “Harsh!”

Karlin seems to have good knowledge of MT (aside from death order of daughters + wife), but not much liking for him, and so I guess we shouldn’t expect much sympathy from the reviewer for MT scholarship targeted to lunatics like us—I mean, “completists,” which I admit I am. I guess Karlin won’t be joining this Forum? :)

Take care and hope you had a great Hallowe’en,
Taylor

> On Oct 31, 2018, at 16:18, Hal Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Folks, here is a wide-ranging and entertaining review of a number of recent=
> works on MT (though at times a tad dismissive), published in the latest TL=
> S; including some relatively nice things to say about our new edition of th=
> e Twain-Twichell letters.  I suppose we can forgive the dismissive tone of =
> some of in exchange for being cited in TLS!
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> https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/never-shall-meet-mark-twain/
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> [https://www.the-tls.co.uk/s3/tls-prod/uploads/2018/10/p3-Karlin.jpg]<https=
> ://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/never-shall-meet-mark-twain/>
> 
> The difficulties in dealing with Mark Twain | Daniel Karlin<https://www.the=
> -tls.co.uk/articles/public/never-shall-meet-mark-twain/>
> www.the-tls.co.uk
> Mark Twain continues to bedevil the academy, if not the reading public. Lik=
> e Kipling, he has been by turns reviled and revered, often for the wrong re=
> asons.
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> Dr. Hal Bush
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