Yes, I read it as well and found it just blabber, trying to capitalize on UCPress "Autobiograpny of Mark Twain, Vol. 2. Or should I say what's new. Gordon Snedecor in rainy Portland, OREGON > Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:01:06 -0400 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: New Yorker: AMAZING, PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED MARK TWAIN QUOTES > To: [log in to unmask] > > So glad to hear I'm not the only one who did not find it funny. I don't > even understand it. Can someone explain what the joke is supposed to be? > > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Heather Morgan <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > > > I did NOT think was funny, but rather weird. The first quote is=20 > > certainly a Twain - the rest=C2=A0!!!!!! > > =C2=A0 > > =C2=A0Heather. > > > > =C2=A0On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 03:32 PM, Arianne wrote: > > =C2=A0 > > =C2=A0> The first quote is his, I believe. > > > > > > I'll be interested in hearing whether anyone thought this was funny. > > > I didn't! > > > > > > Arianne Laidlaw > > > Sacramento > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:09 PM, John H. Muller < > > > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > >> > > >>=20 > > >> > > http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2013/09/amazing-previously-= > > unpublished-mark-twain-quotes.html > > >> > > >> -- > > >> John Muller > > >> 202.236.3413 l [log in to unmask] > > >> Capital Community News l Greater Greater Washington l Huffington Post=20 > > >> DC > > >> *Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C: The Lion of > > >> Anacostia< > > >>=20 > > >> > > http://www.amazon.com/Frederick-Douglass-Washington-D-c-Anacostia/dp/160= > > > > 9495772/ref=3Dwl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=3DUTF8&colid=3DH42HP4SBZ8OA&coliid=3DI= > > 34OMAR1SV8L9G > > >>> > > >> * [The History Press, 2012] - Winner of 2013 DC > > >> READS > > >> 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=20 > > >> Capital > > >> Correspondent" [The History Press, October 29, 2013] > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > --=20 > > > Arianne Laidlaw A '58 > > > > >