Its not fiction, just alternative facts! On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:11 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 >