Twain also shared Keith Richard's love of African-American music -- altho in Twain's case it was the "Negro spirituals" of his day and in Richards' (and all the Stones') case it was Chicago blues. Although I do think Twain would have been shocked and dismayed at the degree of Richards' debauchery, however. --Steve Hoffman Martin D. Zehr wrote: > Twain would have undoubtedly considered Keith Richards a kindred spirit.=A0= > Consider this quote, long available from any of the editions of the Autobi= > ography: > =A0 > I have always felt friendly toward Satan. Of course that is ancestral; it m= > ust be in the blood, for I could not have originated it. > =A0 > Twain would have appreciated the bow to family connections in the great Jag= > ger/Richards composition, "Sympathy for the Devil." > =A0 > Martin Zehr > Kansas City > > --- On Thu, 12/2/10, Lawrence Howe <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > From: Lawrence Howe <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Cigars and whiskey on the ready... > To: [log in to unmask] > Date: Thursday, December 2, 2010, 9:24 AM > > > Alex-- > Keep your anti-Rolling Stones rants to yourself =3DA0;) > --LH > > --- On Wed, 12/1/10, Effgen, Alex Brink <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > From: Effgen, Alex Brink <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Cigars and whiskey on the ready... > To: [log in to unmask] > Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 8:51 AM > > I thought the emoticon of semicolon and close parenthesis indicated a jest,= > =3D > =3D3D > not a rant. > > I'm still so new to this digital world. > > And for the curious the four books I list as alternatives... > > DECISION POINTS, by George W. Bush > UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand > DECODED, by Jay-Z > LIFE, by Keith Richards with James Fox > > ...are currently ahead of our favorite autobiographer on the New York Times= > =3D > =3D3D > list. Come on, people! 19 bucks on Amazon gets you, what Adam Gopnik of th= > =3D > =3D3D > e New Yorker recently described as, "a reshuffling of the same deck of dict= > =3D > =3D3D > ated and written fragments and pieces published in the last decades of Twai= > =3D > =3D3D > n's life (slightly altered here by Twain's revising hand and ostensibly in = > =3D > =3D3D > his intended order)." > > ;)=3DA0 =3DA0 [indicating jest] > > Seriously, for 19 bucks everyone I know is getting this as their Christmas = > =3D > =3D3D > present. Forget JZ, GWB, and whoever that Keith Richards guy is. > > Alex > > >