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...young Twain was, of course, emulating competitively. His childhood experience exemplifies the hope, basic to the operation of competitive emulation, that one may achieve success by imitating it. Nations cherish this hope no less than individuals...
Competition emulation may operate subtly even in the absence of direct competition. A citation from Mark Twain will illustrate...
...would be premature. The world is far from the Orwellian prediction of a globe divided into three continental states. But surely the unconscious emulation of the super-state pattern perceivable in regionalist unions will have more influence on world history than boiling soap had on the life of Mark Twain...
With their two children, the Kalems live in "Mark Twain and Henry James country" in Greenwich Village...
Hangover in the Army. The dude reader first notes a certain irony in the circumstance that the solemn and formidable apparatus of U.S. scholarship has been turned loose on a man who was a great liar in the Mark Twain style and was always surprised if some pedant tried to ride herd on his maverick facts. Stratfordians have unearthed a great many variants- on the spelling of Shakespeare's name; Buffalo Bill's biographer rustles up 14: Coady, Cody, McCoady, etc., and Buffalo Bill probably could not have cared less. He might have resented the fact that Author...