Thanks Pete! "Angelfish" is perfect.
Speaking of Angelfish, Caroline Harnsberger even dressed the part (see
attached)...
Oh, and a very nice guitar player lent me a red pick on the porch.
Thanks, kind sir. If you'll send me your address I'll be happy to get it
back to you. And thanks as well to David on banjo and the fine gentleman
on recorder as well, for the pleasure of making music with you all. Next
time I swear I'll get there sooner, and plan to stay longer!
Persevere.
Richard
http://www.richardhenzel.com
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Dear Forum members.
I was not able to attend the Conference, unfortunately, and I can see by
the passions of the emails that it was a fantastic and memorable Mark
Twain
Event, he would have been very pleased!!!!
I live on the property called The Lobster Pot, the original farm that
Twain purchased when he came to Redding Ct...This spring we had a Mark
Twain
Centennial kickoff here at The Lobster Pot and consequently, for the past
2 months, I have been getting many inquiries regarding Mark Twain and
Isabel Lyon, so with the help of the wonderful web designer Brent Colley,
we
have launched the site _www.marktwainslobsterpot.com_
(http://www.marktwainslobsterpot.com) for those of you who are interested
in Twain's Lobster Pot
and Isabel Lyon.
To learn more about Twain and Redding Ct. a visit to Brent Colley's
informative twainproject.blogspot.com and _www.historyofredding.com_
(http://www.historyofredding.com) will tell you almost everything you need
to know
about Twain, Stormfield, and Redding, Ct
For any of you traveling East to Connecticut, during this coming Centennial
year..you are always welcome to stop by and share a Toast for Twain on the
infamous Patio!
Happy Twaining,
Susan B. Durkee
www.SusanDurkee.com
Lobster Pot Studio/Gallery
23 Mark Twain Lane
W. Redding Ct. 06896
203-938-2760
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I got notice via email that the Virginia and Truckee Railway began hauling
passengers TODAY from Carson City to Virginia City - first time since 1938!
The town is very much worth a periodic visit. Wish I'd known sooner.
Expanded rail service to come in 2010, with some trains pulled by steam.
Auto, or Train or Plane to Reno, then rapid transit to Carson.
Also, the Territorial Enterprise Foundation has begun a program of English
as a Second Language, basing English on Twain writings.
Richard R, in San Francisco.
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Tracy,
If you make a transcription of Hal Holbrook's remarks, I would welcome a
copy. I missed any announcement of the group heading up the hill and missed
attending.
Thank you.
Henry Sweets
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Hello all,
I have updated the website with Hal Holbrook in Elmira. Thanks to the
generous permission of Patrick Ober, I posted the audio he made of Mr.
Holbrook speaking about the influence of Twain scholarship on his own career
(the audio plays with a video I made of Elmira College--my first computer
editing attempt). I also posted some of Patrick's pictures (with his
permission, of course) at the bottom of the site.
I have decided against a transcription of the event--partially due to time
constraints, but also due to the importance of the performance.
Plagiarizing myself: "Elsewhere, Twain noted that a written report of a
speech conveys nothing of the living essence of the speech and no more
conveys “that lecture to the reader than a person represents a *man* to you
when he ships you the corpse.”[1] <#_ftn1>
The website with the recordings is:
http://quarryfarm2009.blogspot.com/
Enjoy,
Tracy Wuster
American Studies, UT Austin
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[1] <#_ftnref> Quoted in Lorch, 106.
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Hi all,
I did some work on the two audio files that were posted, to reduce the
noise and bring out Hal's voice a little better. It's strictly audio,
but if you had trouble making out all of Hal's words, this might be a
little better. I couldn't improve upon Tracy's slide show, however, so
this is audio only.
http://richardhenzel.com/HolbrookAfterDawidziak2009.mp3
http://richardhenzel.com/HolbrookAtStudy090808.mp3
Persevere.
Richard
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hi!
Thanks :)
I just finished with day 3 and 4 of the conference on the web site.
so I have 1/2 of day 2 and all of day 3 and day 4 up.
also the page of idea/events and causes for Twain 2010 :)
as soon as I figure out how to get the pics off the iphone
I was using, I'll get those pics up as well.
tomorrow I'll go through all the e-mail's and update the Twain 2010
page. today I have to get all my items together for the fair
compitition :)
thanks!
Jules
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The city of Nashville appears to be one of the first cities taking a lead in
Twain celebrations beginning this month and running through 2010 with a
website devoted soley to Nashville's planned activities:
http://www.twainandtwang.org
I note their schedule of activities includes a performance of the play "The
Elusive Mr. Twain" by Carolyn German scheduled for April 28 - May 1, 2010. I
am not familiar with this production but would be interested in comments
from any who have seen or may see the play. Described as:
Based on historical record, "The Elusive Mr. Twain" imagines the story of
two women living in the post-Civil War South who develop an unlikely
friendship after they discover a mutual dream of becoming newspaper
journalists. Encouraged by the popularity of the legendary author and
humorist Mark Twain, the pair sets off "up North" determined to win an
audience with the man himself.
Barb
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I am not a reviewer of books. I am a consumer of Health Care, and it was
only after rereading Mark Twain and Medicine: "Any Mummery Will Cure."
by K. Patrick Ober, (MD), University of Missouri Press, 2003, that my
one world impinged on the other and I felt the need to speak of this
book to our Forum readers. Our friend "Dr." Kevin Mac Donnell reviewed
this book for the Forum in 2004 and there is very little to add to his
comprehensive survey of Ober's work. At that time, Kevin stated, "Ober's
work will certainly. provoke new insights into some previously accepted
diagnoses."
When I consulted with my surgeon, a wise and caring man, he realized
immediately what I needed: a healthy fear of God and a dose of
staphylococcus bacteria. He didn't have any of the microbes on hand at
the clinic where I saw him but he knew where he could lay hands on
plenty, so he sent me to the hospital. There on the operating table I
was given what I needed which when later, the lab confirmed their
success, I was informed that the staph had gone to my heart. It was then
that the healing balm of antibiotics was administered along with the
aforementioned fear of God. The caring men and women of medicine have
always served me well. It is with this, a grateful heart and other
medical mishaps in mind I wish to add the following regarding this book.
You need only know that the first time I read a thing I do it for fun.
The second time through I use the yellow marker and do the underlining.
The third time through I make notes in a notebook and the final read is
when I put important stuff--stuff that will be on the test--on flash
cards. I've finished my second reading of Ober's book and even though I
know better, I want to share two "summaries" with you.
First Read through:
"Excellent. Jolly good read. Can't believe this doctor wrote such a good
book. Terrific addition to the Twain Body of expertise. "
Second Read through:
"Stunning. To read and understand the times in which Twain lived and to
have explained to the reader the primitive level of understanding common
to the so-called medical community of that era is to discover & know how
little we knew then about medicine. But wait, there's more. To read this
book in the year 2009 is to reckon how very little time has passed since
then, and if one is honest with one's self, to fully comprehend how
totally screwed we all are today when we fool ourselves into believing
that today's doctors really know anything about any thing.
If a doctor practices a full forty years we are but three generations
passed the day when healers could easily kill you if you didn't get out
of their way. Seriously, would you trust your child's life into the
hands of a surgeon whose progenitor could fairly say, "Yep, my great
grandpappy bled George Washington to death."? Would you trust the health
of your wife to a physician who could brag, "My dad was a doctor at
Pearl Harbor and they always dressed the burn victims real good with
gauze and Vaseline"? Penicillin, an experimental drug, would not be used
until it was forced to be used in December of 1942 after the Boston
Cocoanut Grove fire left so many horribly burned and suffering.
Yes, medicine has come a long way or so we would like to think, and
Patrick Ober takes you back into the not-so-distant past in a way that
is illuminating and at the same time chilling. It is easy to conjecture
that far less than 100 years from now our grandchildren will marvel at
21st-Century medicine and chuckle, "In the twenty-first century they
still used poison (chemotherapy) on cancer patients. Yes, poison. They
gave it to them intentionally and their hair fell out and they vomited
for days. Isn't that funny?"
Yes, it's very funny, just like bleeding someone to death is funny. But
when you consider that you yourself are living in the twenty-first
century and have oft comforted yourself with remarks such as "Ah, the
marvels of modern medicine"...
We all believe in modern medicine, we all hope for rapid advancements;
after all, it might one of our kids who grows up and finds a cure for
HMOs.
Dr. Ober gives us more than a glance over our shoulders at the past, and
makes us intelligently shudder to contemplate that we might well have
need of putting a family member, a loved one, into the hands of
"modern-day" healers.
To know Twain and to love Twain is good. To understand him in the time
he lived is better. To remain ignorant, however, whether it be of
anatomy, the dangerous currents that lie just beneath the surface of the
river or how perilously close we live to iatrogenic death is best of
all.
You can't understand Twain if you don't understand his Times, just as
you can't understand the Beatles if you don't understand Beatlemania.
Dr. Mac Donnell and I concur: Rx: read Ober's book and you will be
repaid ten times over. Twain loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, and with a
love like that, you know you should be glad.
Rick Talbot
In Minnesota---The Place Where Nothing is Allowed
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I'd like to add a heartfelt "amen" to all the praise heaped on the
recent conference. It was my fourth in Elmira, and it was certainly one
of the best. "Magical" is not too strong a word to describe it.
During the conference, I used the video function on my little digital
still camera to record brief segments of several sessions. With the
permission of the people appearing in these segments, I have posted them
on YouTube. (I should add that I got the idea for doing this from John
Bird's wonderful "Why do you work on Mark Twain?" video.)
Here's a very brief excerpt from Alex Effgen's terrific paper on Mark
Twain as an icon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v3D4mLTPMCu5SU
For those of you who missed out on his session, Alex showed about 45 or
50 pictures of Mark Twain while delivering 20 minutes of nonstop, solid,
and incisive commentary. A bravura performance!
The final paper in that Saturday afternoon session was Mark Dawidziak's
presentation on the impact of Hal Holbrook's MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! show on
public awareness of Mark Twain generally and on Mark Twain scholarship
in particular. Another bravura performance. These four brief excerpts
from his paper will make you want to see the entire presentation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za9vvI7ia4w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAwH-TsB5qs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yW2LunVaZQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB9zys6zu4w
(Incidentally, if you watch the fourth segment closely, you might guess
why I turned on my camera at that moment.)
Finally, the pice de r'sistance of what was already an amazing
session: In a move clearly inspired by Woody Allen's film ANNIE HALL
(think "Marshall McLuhan"), Mark brought with him Hal himself. After he
finished his presentation, Hal stood up and spoke for almost four
minutes. I recorded virtually all his words:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIvqdPC_rYU
To those of you who missed the conference, mark your calendars for
August 2013. You won't want to make that mistake again.
Kent
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Kent's link to YouTube has some problems, I think, and since Kent is on
digest, he won't know it for a few days, perhaps. Here's a good link to the
Hal Holbrook comments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIvqdPC_rYU
I am so glad Kent filmed this moment--I had to leave to get to the final
session. "I am a student--you are the teachers." Wow.
If you want to see the other clips, you can find them from this place, or
search under "Arkent43."
John Bird
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folks; in the spirit of all the good vibrations from the conference, and
John Bird's trivia about his video, here's one. The first to post the
correct answer to the entire LIST will be awarded a special designation:
What kinds of stone was actually quarried at Quarry Farm???
there are two correct answers and to win you must name them BOTH!
(thanks to the intrepid Mark Woodhouse and Prof. Michael Pratt, I finally
know the answer to that surprisingly challenging question . . . . And no,
Mark and his colleagues at Elmira College are NOT eligible to respond to
this!!! )
I feel very superior, knowing something that I doubt anyone else on here
might know. There's a first time for everything.
Mark and Michael have been sworn to secrecy so forget about it!
Harold K. Bush, Ph.D
Saint Louis University
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There may be other ways to get there, but removing the "3D" from each
YouTube address Kent sent will get you where you need to go.
So if you now click on these revised links you will see:
The snippet of my paper...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mLTPMCu5SU
Mark Dawidziak's links...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za9vvI7ia4w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAwH-TsB5qs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yW2LunVaZQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB9zys6zu4w
And as you've seen from Prof. Bird's post, the words of the immortal
Hal Holbrook...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIvqdPC_rYU
Mark, Mr. Holbrook should use you as his opening act all the time. It
gets the crowd going, sure nuff.
Alex
Mr. Alex B. Effgen, M.A.
Boston University
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From the look of the stone, I would guess maybe dimension (building) stone
and roof tiles?
Peter Salwen
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To toss out a proposal of types of stone, I would suggest limestone and
shale as good possibilities.
Henry Sweets
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I'd guess shale (the dark stone with Devonian fossils seen in the quarry
today, used to make the steps up to the study site, etc., and the subject an
interesting paper at the last conference), and sandstone (flagstone) that
comes in several colors. Not sure if Quarry Farm had the highly sought
"blue" sandstone. Just a guess.
Kevin Mac Donnell
Austin TX
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Given that from the farm there's always a gneiss view, even when it'slate,
the answer is obvious, isn't it?
Gregg
p.s. I'll buy a whiskey (to be collected at the next possible conference)
for anyone who can work off an appropriate pun on "feldspar" or
"chalcedony."
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Before sending in my answer I asked by friend Cal to run up the Quarry Farm
and look around and see if he could find samples of the stones once quarried
there.
Chalcedony walked over the feldspar and wide but didn't find any stones.
Kevin Mac Donnell
Austin TX 78730
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Hal,
Were the two stones granite and SANDSTONE? The granite part is easy. The
sandstone is trickier. I saw an outcropping of it behind my back that night
while standing on the site of the Octagon. I'm from Minnesota and we ARE
sandstone, so I thought it was a bit unusual to see this red sedimentary
rock amide the igneous granite all around.
Do I win?
Rick Talbot
In Minnesota
The State Where Nothing is Allowed
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Alex,
I believe I'll start billing myself as David Garrick the Younger.
Many thanks to Edmund Kean the Elder (also known as Kent Rasmussen)
for posting these clips and making Youtube stars of our humble selves.
But mostly thanks to Kent for posting Hal's eloquent and moving "you
are the teachers" talk -- a marvelous tribute to those who study Twain
and a compelling argument for the need to study Twain.
" Ah, it's sublime, sublime! Always fetches the house."
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The Twain list,
Chapter 35 of LOM paraphrases stories that the author claims were
told to him by survivors of the siege of Vicksburg; in a passage deleted
from the published version, he says these stories were "gathered from my
old note-books."
Does anyone know whether this claim about the note-books is accurate?
Has anyone speculated that the accounts may have come from Clemens
himself, originally? I've found no discussion of this topic in Horst
Kruse's book on LOM or in the versions of LOM edited by Wager, Cox, or
McKibben/Danly. Thanks to anyone who has information.
Christopher Morris
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Sorry, no winners so it is time to reveal the answer. A few of you were
HALF right, but you needed both answers to win fair and square.
I wish I could talk all scientist-like, but alas, in the words of Prof.
Pratt of Elmira College:
The bedrock taken from the quarry [at Quarry Farm] is not slate, which is a
metamorphic rock formed when shale is heated under pressure deep within the
earth. Such conditions have not existed in the Southern Tier. Rather all the
stone in the quarry that I have found to date falls into two categories of
sedimentary rock: 1. *siltstones *characterized by a slightly gritty texture
and 2. *fine-grained sandstones* with a somewhat more granular/gritty feel.
Harold K. Bush, Ph.D
Saint Louis University
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Folks; another item I wish to share:
I have been reading this impressive, epic-type novel by Wally Lamb, title
above. it is wide-ranging, about some folks caught up in the Columbine
tragedy of 1999. The accounts of the events, and of PTSS of survivors, are
quite amazing.
Anyhoo -- THE HOUR I FIRST BELIEVED might be of interest to the LIST due to
its interesting depictions of a lengthy dinner party at Twain's house on
Farmington Ave., and the friendship of a character with Joe Twichell. The
book cites the Twichell Civil War Letters of Courtney & Messent and also has
scenes in Bushnell Park, among other things. Much of the action is in
present day Connecticut but the main character's family has members involved
with these historic figures.
I have a few qualms about Lamb's coverage of Twain and Twichell and would
certainly be interested in anyone else's opinion, who has read this novel.
(if you have not read it, then your opinion is of somewhat less interest to
me)
PS--at one point in the dinner party scene, Twain springs up, runs childlike
to the piano ("Oh, YOUTH!) , and starts singing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot."
I love the song ... but ... Would Twain have done this during a formal
dinner??? seems wrong to me.
Harold K. Bush, Ph.D
Saint Louis University
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Can someone tell me what kind of pen Twain used before the fountain pen?
Cynthia
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Sometimes he used a poison one! (Much to the delight of his readers).
Steve Hoffman
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Twain used a Smith & Todd gold-nibbed pen dated 1868 (I own Twain's Smith &
Todd pen). In the 1880s he used a Paul Wirt dropper pen and wrote admiringly
of its smooth writing qualities which they used in their advertising. He
later used a Conklin fountain pen whose filling lever projected slightly
from the body of the pen and kept it from rolling off a desk, and they used
his endorsement in their ads as well. I have advertising from at least one
other pen-maker who claimed Twain used their pens, but their name escapes me
at the moment. Conklin, still in business, has made new "Mark Twain" pens to
celebrate their connection with Twain, although I don't know if the model
they have reproduced is solidly documented as the very model Twain actually
used.
Kevin Mac Donnell
Austin TX
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So Conklin Pen Co. is still in business over a century later?
I guess Twain would've been better off if he had invested in that
old-fashioned pen company than in that newfangled, doomed Paige typesetter!!
Steve Hoffman
Takoma Park MD
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You all know so much! Do you happen to know if Mark Twain had a favorite
flower? A friend of mine found a list of his favorite food (in Tramp
Abroad) for a dinner we plan in honor of him. I know he liked flowers in
general, but did he like a particular one that anyone knows about?
Thanks for any clues.
Arianne Laidlaw
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I've heard/read somewhere that he loved forget-me-nots.
Heather Morgan.
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HI all--
Conklin advertises that their pen is "an exact replica of the original
Conklin crescent filler used and promoted by Mark Twain," available in
black, blue and butterscotch. However, they don't seem to feature one
warmed up in hell.
Gerald
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There are some online pieces about Twain's pens at
http://www.kamakurapens.com/TwainsConklin.html
http://www.kamakurapens.com/TwainsMackinnon.html
http://www.kamakurapens.com/TwainsEarlyImpliments.html
http://www.kamakurapens.com/TwainsWirt.html
http://www.kamakurapens.com/TwainsWaterman.html
(some are still "under construction")
Pat Ober
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This isn't directly on point, possibly, but Livy Clemens seems to have
developed an affection for purple gentians during her recuperation in Maine
in summer-fall 1902. I've posted an article about that at
[www.salwenpr.com/clemensletters_article.pdf].
Pete Salwen
New York, NY
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Oh! In spring I have tons of forget-me-nots! Thanks!
Arianne Laidlaw A '58
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What a delightful treat! Fascinating article with perfectly chosen
illustrations. Gentians are my favorite deep blue, so I can share their
enthusiasm now that I've seen them.
THANK YOU!
Arianne Laidlaw
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My guess is the list could be long. I already thought of what he loved to
smoke, but think we'll forgo that detail.
This dinner was inspired when some friends and I went to a play at the
Consumnes College River Stage: T.R. and Twain: Luncheon at the White
House. By
Frank Denson and Alan Freeman, directed by Frank Condon.
It was staged as a reading with cast representing those who attended an
actual luncheon at the White House are some time. Among the guests were
Henry Pinkney, John Temple Graves, Charles Joseph Bonaparte and William
Moody. Mrs. Roosevelt and Alice were included. The play had been through
workshops and our audience was invited to comment after the performance. I
was impressed.
At the intermission, I noticed a fellow with longish white hair and boldly
approached him to ask if he'd ever acted as Mark Twain. He had!
Only briefly, a couple of 8 minute sketches in a local theater. So I asked
if he'd do it for me and my friends if we provided a Very Good Dinner. He
agreed.
That is how it all began. But we'll dine at a restored Victorian and eat
food largely prepared by a gifted former caterer who is one of our party.
There will be
eight of us. All of us have an interest in Mark Twain so are
having a good time preparing for this event.
If you have a chance to see the play, I recommend it. The
drama worked in spite of no costumes, and no sets. The actors were fine.
Arianne Laidlaw
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...and on the gentian subject, there's that tale of the day Clemens "tried
out" 1601 on Twichell in the fall of 1876 on their regular eight-mile walks
from Nook Farm to Bartlett's Tower on Talcott Mountain:
“There was a grove of hickory trees by the roadside, six miles out, and
close by it was the only place in that whole region where the fringed
gentian grew. On our return from the Tower we used to gather the gentians,
then lie down upon the grass upon the golden carpet of fallen hickory leaves
and read it by the help of these poetical surroundings. We used to laugh
ourselves lame and sore over the cupbearer's troubles.”
Steve Courtney
Terryville, CT
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I'm forwarding a request I got at the Mark Twain House from a very careful
New York state official seeking to verify an alleged quotation. I couldn't
find it in the usual sources. Any ideas?
~~~~~
Subject: Request please
I am writing a plan for the New York State Office of Mental Health and would
like to include a quote I see attributed to Mark Twain: "I'm all for
progress. It's change I don't like."
I've seen several variations of this quote on the web and am trying to find
the source to check the accuracy of the language.
Would you be able to tell me the source of this quote and whether I have
captured it accurately?
I thank you!
Sincerely
Elizabeth A. Pease
NYS Office of Mental Health
Albany NY
~~~~~
Steve Courtney
Terryville
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Steve, I don't have any ideas about a source, but I will be very surprised
if this came indeed from Twain. It doesn't sound like him--in fact, it
sounds like someone taking the current political scene and TRYING to sound
like him. And then again, I may be wrong, which happens from time to
time...
John Bird
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For what it's worth, I recall that Twain liked honeysuckle. Of course, the
source of this is buried beneath piles of other minutiae, but the reason
I remember it is that it was also my grandfather's favorite.
Sandra Uetz
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That quote makes me wish I'd seen gentians
too! Reminds me of the joys of bluebells in woods in Cornwall in June.
Thanks for that passage
Arianne
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No scholarly credentials here, but have a good ear for style, and
that ain't Twain. It has none of the literary richness, or sly
surprise, that is inevitable with Twain. Like John surmises, it's a
much more recent construction, but I don't even think it was an
attempt to imitate Twain. Just my take, fwiw. We have some
quotation experts on the list, so I'm sure it will be clarified, and
if I'm wrong, I couldn't be in better company than John's!
Ben
Benjamin N. Wise, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Keene State College
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This one of my favorite "floral" Twain passages. Read it slowly, savor it as
you go, and let it sink into your mind's palate as you would a good wine.
Then if you care to, memorize it and it will always refresh you again and
again.
Rick Talbot
On Hawaii:
"For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the
sun; the pulsing of its surf is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags,
its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote
summits floating like islands above the cloud-rack; I can feel the spirit of
its woody solitudes, I hear the plashing of the brooks; in my nostrils still
lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago." - Mark Twain, a
Biography.
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Maybe Twain liked roses --red roses in particular---
The following is a quote from an autograph fragment in my possession that
was probably clipped by Merle Johnson from Twain's 1904/5 "lost notebook"
(fragments of about the same size and type of paper, clipped from some
unidentified source, can all be traced to 1904/5, all display late
holograph, all are in pencil, and all have provenances that start with Merle
Johnson --and all that I have been able to trace take the form of notebook
entries rather than letter or ms fragments).
"Sunday 17th, from 11 till---- a dim & wet & driving gray snow, through
which the red roses showed like fire-coals & the grass looking furiously &
fantastically green. Great storms Jan 4 in NY --read it yesterday in Sun."
Of course, if you write prose blending gray, red, and green you get purple.
January 17th fell on a Sunday in 1875, 1886, 1892, 1897, 1904, and 1909.
Twain was in Hartford on that date in 1875 and 1886, in Berlin in 1892,
London in 1897, Florence in 1904, and at Stormfield in 1909. If on Jan 16th
("yesterday") he read a Jan 4th New York weather report from the New York
Sun, I'd think he was overseas at the time, leaving 1892, 1897 and 1904 as
the probable dates, and given the dates of the "lost notebook" cut to pieces
by Merle Johnson (and the provenance and characteristics of this fragment),
my guess is he wrote this in Florence. The Villa di Quarto was surrounded by
a large private park with flowering shrubs.
Kevin Mac Donnell
Austin TX
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Does any one know what kind of flowers were grown in the conservatory? The
answers might give a clue as to what flowers he liked.
Sandra Uetz
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I'll bet that you are right which would explain why he was reading the Sun
almost two weeks after its publication. And I appreciated the reference to
the Sun since I'm intereted in the relationship between him and Chas.Dana
who published it. THANKS. The image of the ember red roses will stay with
me, too.
Arianne Laidlaw A '58
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A fellow Forum member emailed me privately that a quick check of the NY Sun
online showed reports of a snow storm and I went to the same page (LC's
newspaper search page) and read several issues from Jan 1-5 and founds
reports of a big storm. So, it's surely red roses in Florence in 1904. To
read those papers you must select "view" rather than "thumbnail" after you
get your search results, and then use the "zoom" feature for each page. At
least that's the best I could do.
I mention this for the benefit of those who might be interested in Twain's
reading habits that he was keeping up with news by carefully reading the NY
Sun while at Villa di Quarto.
Kevin Mac Donnell
Austin TX
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Thanks, just reading the passage was like a brief
vacation. I've been there and have images flash in
my mind's eye to accompany the words.
Arianne Laidlaw
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Hi,
If I could throw my two cents in, I too doubt that this quote is from
Mark Twain. It's too cute, too pat, and too much like the kind of thing
that gets forwarded so many times that it is in fact a kind of virus: a
virus of dishonest attribution to validate a particular sentiment. There
are entire pages of quotes, an entire editorial column, in fact, that
goes around with Andy Rooney's all over it. Not one word is his, but
someone wanted to sucker people into reading what they might not have
read, had it not had a famous name attached.
I would be especially suspicious of homilies denouncing *change* these
days...
Richard Henzel
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The Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies is pleased to announce
the upcoming Fall Lecture Series as follows:
Wednesday, September 9th
The Making of Mark Twain Day By Day: Rudyard Kipling Meets Mark Twain
David Fears Independent Scholar
Join David Fears as he shares his experiences compiling his massive work
-- an accounting of the daily life and times of Mark Twain. The focus of
this presentation will center on Fears' research efforts to determine
the exact date of Rudyard Kipling's visit to Quarry Farm in the summer
of 1889 -- a date heretofore variously referred to as occurring in the
"summer of 1889" (Paine), or as "July or August," or "one hot August
morning" in 1889 (Baetzhold).
Wednesday, September 16th
"It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off."
A Look at the Collections of the Mark Twain Archive
Mark Woodhouse Elmira College
The Mark Twain Archive in the Gannett-Tripp Library at Elmira College
houses many valuable and important items of interest to Twain scholars
and enthusiasts. In addition to fine collections of first and rare
editions, photographs and letters, there are many volumes from Clemens'
own library and from that of the Cranes at Quarry Farm containing marginal
comments by Clemens. There are also several unusual items including stones
on which Clemens wrote a three stanza verse to Mrs. Thomas Beecher and a
traveling trunk on the lid of which he made notes. Mark Woodhouse will show
some fine examples of items in the collection.
Wednesday, September 30th
Twain and Freud on Personality and Politics
Abraham Kupersmith Borough of Manhattan Community College,
City University of New York, Emeritus
Although at first glance Twain and Freud seem to constitute an unlikely
pairing, each formulated a comprehensive theory of individual and group
psychology and subsequently applied that understanding to the realms of
religion, morality, patriotism, and politics. The talk will focus on the
similarities and differences in their theories of personality and will
provide examples of how Twain's theory of personality is reflected in
the construction of some of his novels.
The full program is available at
http://www.elmira.edu/resources/shared/pdf/academics/distinctive_program
s/twain_center/fall2009.pdf
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While working on Methuselah's Diary in the 1870s, MT made a note to
"Take this up again under brief republican form of govt, when Meth about
300 or 400 old, and put in Custer and [General Oliver O.] Howard and the
Peace Commissioners (Quakers) and the Modoc Lava Beds, etc. and satirize
freely."
Given the absence of further elaboration, I'm wondering if MT expressed
his views on these subjects elsewhere.
Anybody know?
Thanks,
Darryl Brock
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Hi,
I searched Caroline Harnsberger's card file and came up without any
reference to Custer or General Howard. I can tell you what he wrote
about Fitz Hugh Ludlow, and a hundred other lesser known people, but no
Custer nor Howard.
Richard Henzel
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