I keep looking for the LIKE button on some of these posts. :) Susan Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 29, 2016, at 7:15 PM, Kevin Mac Donnell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > I can't think of anything Twain wrote about the art of the inside joke, but > a good example of an inside joke of his own was the one I dissected in > delirious detail in the Mark Twain Journal (52:2; Fall, 2014). Did I forget > to mention exactly what that joke was? Nope. To find out, you must pull that > issue off the shelf if you already subscribe to the MTJ. If you don't > subscribe to the MTJ you can visit their website and repent. > > Kevin > @ > Mac Donnell Rare Books > 9307 Glenlake Drive > Austin TX 78730 > 512-345-4139 > Member: ABAA, ILAB > ************************* > You may browse our books at: > www.macdonnellrarebooks.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Howe > Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 12:09 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Twain on inside jokes? > > ?All-- > > > A colleague has asked if Twain ever made any reference to the strategy and/= > or effect of inside jokes. I couldn't come up with anything offhand. I fi= > gured this was the place to seek help. Any ideas? > > > --LH > > > Larry Howe > Professor of English & Film Studies > Department of Literature and Languages > Roosevelt University