Did you search through the letters on the Mark Twain Project site? Arianne Laidlaw On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Hal Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Folks; Again, my thanks to all for the suggestions so far. The quote is > not in the SELECTED correspondence; it may be in the full 2 volume set, > which my library inexplicably does not own (I have requested through ILL). > Or: the quote may be from a notebook entry, another letter to another > correspondent; Or, it may be in a score of other locations; and/or it may > be a figment, a canard: for all I know there is no such quote. > > I might also point out, as I was reminded by one respondent: "the club" > metaphor is common in parental grief narratives. Bereaved parents often > use it, as in this NPR coverage a week after the tragedy, and the quote > from the Columbine HS principal about Newtown's survivors: > > "Unfortunately the elementary school in Connecticut now becomes a part of > this club, a club that we know is tragedy, heartbreak," said DeAngelis, who > began teaching at Columbine in 1979. "And no one wants to be a part of that > club, but what we have to do =97 no one asked us to be a part of it =97 but > now, how do we help each other?" > > > http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/12/14/167293608/in-grief-stricken-= > newtown-vigils-and-support-for-victims-and-families > > indeed: "no one wants to be a part of that club." > > --=20 > Prof. Harold K. Bush > Professor of English > 3800 Lindell > Saint Louis University > St. Louis, MO 63108 > 314-977-3616 (w); 314-771-6795 (h) > <www.slu.edu/x23809.xml> > -- Arianne Laidlaw A '58