On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 8:23 AM Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > What if Twain had been born a century later - same place, but in 1935? > Earl= > > y boyhood memories would have been of WWII, and he would still have been > re= > > latively young and I assume of draft age during the Vietnam War. Would he > h= > > ave dressed like Jimi Hendrix and gone to Woodstock? What would he have > wri= > > tten about Watergate?=20 > > What about Space travel? Would he have been an early adopter of computers, > = > > social media, etc.? > > > > Perhaps he would have invested in Apple from the outset and been too > distra= > > cted with business matters to write much... > > If his life span remained the same, he would have died about the time > Obama= > > took office. > > Of course, it's impossible to know the answers to these things for sure, > bu= > > t a Twainian with a talent for alternative history fiction might be able > to= > > come up with some plausible and interesting scenarios.=C2=A0- B. Clay > Shan= > > non > >