Did any of you READ this? It's funny. Bret and Kate Mckay wrote: Mark Twain would often [ is twenty years "often"?] summer with his sister [huh?] who lived in Elmira, New York. Needing a place where he could get some work done, Twain built himself [who built it? ] a writing hut [hut? What happened to octagon?] on his sister's [her again] property. Free from distractions and inspired by the setting, Twain could write in peace and quiet. In this sanctuary of manliness, ["manliness"? what did Twain say of it?] Twain wrote some of his most widely read and manly works: Life on the Mississippi, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I love how Twain described his man space in an 1874 letter to William Dean Howells: "It is the loveliest [ now THAT'S a manly way to put it!]study you ever saw.octagonal with a peaked roof, each face filled with a spacious window.perched in complete isolation on the top of an elevation that commands leagues of valley and city and retreating ranges of distant blue hills. It is a cozy nest [yeah, that's manly]and just room in it for a sofa, table, and three or four chairs, and when the storms sweep down the remote valley and the lightning flashes [hey, is this guy..]behind the hills beyond and the rain beats upon the roof over my head-imagine the luxury of it." [luxury? Cozy? Lovely? This guy sounds more like an interior decorator than a man cave dweller] Cheers, Twainiacs. Rick Richard Talbot 1531 West Idaho Avenue Falcon Heights, MN 55108-2118 (651) 646-6624 (651) 280 8734 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John H. Muller Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 5:20 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Mark Twain and Man Caves Fred Douglass checking in, too! On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 6:18 PM, John Bird <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Mark Twain makes the list twice, famous man caves. Serious error about > Quarry Farm, though: > > http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/07/27/famous-man-caves/ > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > John Bird > [log in to unmask] > -- John Muller 202.236.3413 l [log in to unmask] Capital Community News l Greater Greater Washington l Huffington Post DC *Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C: The Lion of Anacostia<http://www.amazon.com/Frederick-Douglass-Washington-D-c-Anacostia/ dp/1609495772/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=H42HP4SBZ8OA&coliid=I34O MAR1SV8L9G> * [The History Press, 2012] - Winner of 2013 DC READS<http://www.dclibrary.org/dcreads> http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Douglassi http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/JohnMul Forthcoming: "Mark Twain in Washington, D.C.: The Adventures of a Capital Correspondent" [The History Press, Fall 2013]