I am really quite put off by all this tasteless vulgar nonsense about Twains' sexuality. Don't you academic yobbos have anything else to occupy yourself with beside such trivial specualtion? The only possible explanation must be that you know everything else about his life, so now you've got to go snooping after rumours that can't be proved and don't matter anyway. You twits need to grow up or better yet take some of Twains' work and go sit under a shade tree and appreciate the real value of his life, his body of work. Edward Dotson