"Hal Bush," indeed. I've long suspected this entertainer/literary scholar was using this moniker to disguise a nefarious background, perhaps as the sixth Marx brother, Halo. <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Hal Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > ps: Twain's era?? Plus, also today -- the list of stage names is > staggeri= > ng, and many if not most of the famous comics of the 20th century up till > = > today have made up a stage name either slightly altered from their given > na= > me, or else completely different (for ethnic and other reasons...): > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stage_names > > List of stage names - Wikipedia<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ > stage= > _names> > en.wikipedia.org > This list of stage names lists names used by those in the entertainment > ind= > ustry, alphabetically by their stage name's surname, followed by their > birt= > h name. > > > > > Dr. Hal Bush > > Dept. of English > > Saint Louis University > > [log in to unmask] > > 314-977-3616 > > http://halbush.com > > author website: halbush.com > > ________________________________ > From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Martin Zehr > <mdzehr@= > GMAIL.COM> > Sent: Monday, October 2, 2017 9:18:29 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Sam and Henry > > Yes, there has already been too much "pop psychoanalysis" in Mark Twain > criticism, although the phrase itself is a redundancy. "Splitting" > personalities seems to me to be a highfalutin attempt to "explain" the > obvious- that authors and humorists of Twain's era commonly used pseudonyms > and constructed characters. > Consider: > > David Ross Locke- Petroleum V. Nasby > Henry Wheeler Shaw- Josh Billings > Charles Farrar Browne- Artemus Ward > Robert Henry Newell- Orpheus C. Kerr > Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber- Mrs. Partington > William Wright- Dan DeQuille > > Habit and convention are the most defensible explanations for Sam's > adoption of the "Twain" brand and character, after trying many others, > e.g., W. Epaminondas Adrastus Blab, and, as Kevin Mac Donnell has cogently > argued, even the particular choice of pseudonym was likely "borrowed," from > Artemus Ward, no less. > > Freud was purported to have observed that "Sometimes a cigar is just a > cigar," and, although he probably didn't say that, it would have been one > of the few contributions of psychoanalysis to literary criticism worth > remembering. > Respectfully, > Martin Zehr > > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttps-3A__www.avast.com_sig- > 2= > Demail-3Futm-5Fmedium-3Demail-26utm-5Fsource-3Dlink-26utm- > 5Fcampaign-3Dsig-= > 2Demail-26utm-5Fcontent-3Dwebmail-26utm-5Fterm-3Dicon& > d=3DDwIBAg&c=3DPk_Hpa= > IpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=3Df7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=3D4vP_ > yvEFxv8RJuWsGqlIyIw9Fh9= > Fs6h3xJDaaEtAdww&s=3D56meZP2sLlko0nduz0kQtL9N6wleM3JszrWF_m6YDRs&e=3D > > Virus-free. > www.avast.com<http://www.avast.com> > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttps-3A__www.avast.com_sig- > 2= > Demail-3Futm-5Fmedium-3Demail-26utm-5Fsource-3Dlink-26utm- > 5Fcampaign-3Dsig-= > 2Demail-26utm-5Fcontent-3Dwebmail-26utm-5Fterm-3Dlink& > d=3DDwIBAg&c=3DPk_Hpa= > IpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=3Df7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=3D4vP_ > yvEFxv8RJuWsGqlIyIw9Fh9= > Fs6h3xJDaaEtAdww&s=3Dr0kW5dzorvvNQomN1rsHqICh72MK6IvpDk-JCSYdWCk&e=3D > > <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > > On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 6:25 PM, Doug Aldridge < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > I don=3D92t know of any study of Sam=3D92s relationship with Henry, and > a= > s fa=3D > > r as I=3D20 > > know his autobiography gives the most insight. But your question got me= > =3D20=3D > > > > thinking. Did Sam=3D92s survivor-guilt after Henry=3D92s death > contribute= > to =3D > > the=3D20 > > splitting of his personality into the respectable SLC and the irreverent > = > =3D > > MT=3D20 > > as he tried to bring Henry back to life? In other words, was Henry > > (the=3D20=3D > > > > model for Sid Sawyer in Tom Sawyer) also the model for =3D93S. L. > > Clemens,=3D94=3D > > =3D20 > > respectable gentleman and twin of Mark Twain? Although I think there > has= > =3D > > =3D20 > > already been too much pop psychoanalysis in Mark Twain criticism, > it=3D92= > s =3D > > an=3D20 > > interesting question, although probably, I suspect, an unanswerable > > one.=3D20=3D > > > > Good luck, and I hope this helps. Life intervened in my case, too. > > >