Word: twain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three days he was wracked, wrecked, frantic with insidious syncopation. Not until he repeated the verses to a friend was he released from torture. The friend learned the jingles quickly, eagerly?and went quite as mad as Mark Twain had been...
...When Mark Twain read these jingles in a newspaper, they took (he said) instant and entire possession of him. He could not read, he could not write, he could not eat or speak or sleep, save to the drumming, infernal accompaniment...
Only by having him recite and transfer the jingles to "the poor, unthinking students" of a university did Mark Twain save his friend (he said) from the asylum...
...easily disturb and amaze us, and yet remain on first reading upon a separate plane from the actual passage of these chronicled events. But a more leisured reflection upon the nature of this book may easily start thought coursing through the various strata of speculation from Gulliver and Mark Twain to Bradley and Pirandello. The terrifying enigma of the sanity of the insane or the falseness of reality leaves us with a shaken faith even in the surcease of our own transitory mutability. Herbert Spencer said "Not only is there a soul of good 'in things evil', but a soul...
Joan of Arc. In the Autobiography, Mark Twain tells of the difficulty an audience once had to divine the meaning of a charade acted by small Susy and small