I like that very much! Perhaps we can all choose a favorite character from the past to become in 2nd Life. I would like to be Hannibal or Alexander. Inhibitions be gone. Somebody though needs to be Sam in modern contexts. Steve On Feb 25, 2011, at 1:21 AM, Scott Holmes wrote: > For those of you that already have accounts in Second Life and for those > aware of it but haven't logged in yet, I have created an avatar named > SLClemens. I suspect that most readers of this list haven't a clue what > I'm talking about, Second Life indeed. I'll leave that to you to > google. Anyway, I've created this avatar and characterize him as an > itinerant story teller that visits venues throughout the Second Life > grid and reads stories from the works of Mark Twain. He is currently > working on Roughing It and has an engagement on Thursday March 3 at 1pm > (pst). He's using a copy obtained from the Gutenberg project in order > to avoid any potential copyright issues. > > Now I don't pretend to be a Mark Twain impersonator nor do I attempt to > do dialects, just straight reading from the text. I've rarely done any > public speaking outside of presenting papers back in my graduate school > days and my erstwhile career many years ago. I'm doing this because I > want to try to do something creative with this new platform, Second > Life, and because I love Mark Twain's works. SLClemens will not attempt > any of Twains novels but will stick primarily to his travel adventures, > if he can get through Roughing It.