I used an AI-generated image for each chapter of my novel "Taterskin & The Eco Defenders"; but that's not a Twain book, of course. This is where I used the Twain "author-cat" quote in connection with it, though: https://ramblingnotesofageezer.substack.com/p/in-offense-and-defense-of-taterskin On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 2:43 PM Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Clay -- thanks. A number of the AI images I have online were created by > Kent Rasmussen. His newest collection of Mark Twain stories will be the > first that I am aware of where AI has completely illustrated a Mark Twain > book (except for the cover.) > > > https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781493086139/Mark-Twains-Tales-of-the-Macabre-and-Mysterious > > Barb > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 3:24 PM B. Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > Thanks, Barbara! As I googled, I was enjoying some of your AI-generated > > images that accompany Twain's cat quotes. > > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 1:18 PM Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> > > wrote: > > > > > "An autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably > > > consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, > > > partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain > > straight > > > truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the > > > author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested > > > spectator neither it nor its smell (though I didn't use that > figure)--the > > > result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily > > > diligences." > > > - Letter to William D. Howells, 14 March 1904 > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 3:09 PM B. Clay Shannon < > [log in to unmask]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > What is the Mark Twain quote about how an author cannot conceal > > himself; > > > he > > > > reveals himself between the lines; he refers to the writer as "the > > > > author-cat," I think, and talks about him scratching "cat litter" > over > > > the > > > > clues to his true nature that he leaves behind (or some such). > > > > > > > > I've been googling my head off but can't find it... > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Clay Shannon > > > > (831) 251-4279 > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Clay Shannon > > (831) 251-4279 > > > -- Clay Shannon (831) 251-4279