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...graphic descriptions of 'love embraces' are concerned, I shall make no attempt to sketch for the repelled reader precisely how The Beast (sexual desire) emerged to make a loathsome mockery of the love declarations, kisses, caresses, and other amorous indulgences which transpired between Malvinia and Mr. Twain, in Malvinia's sumptuously appointed bedchamber." Gates, 44, outdistanced feminism long before it was fashionable to do so, taking her themes from headlines. Them (1969) explored the roots of violence by reconstructing the 1967 Detroit race riots. "War, rape, murder and the more colorful minor crimes," she complained then, "evidently...
William Black was assuring everyone last week that he was not dead. Eighty plus, yes, but not dead. Afflicted with heart trouble, a bleeding ulcer and a third ailment he will not disclose, yes, but still not dead. Said Black: "I know how Mark Twain must have felt when he stated that reports of his demise had been greatly exaggerated...
From his home in suburban St. Louis, not far from Mark Twain's Mississippi River, Stanley Elkin once remarked that "the consummate salesman also needs a customer who doesn't want to buy." He was talking about inspiration and performance, the challenge of turning accessory into necessity. He was also offering a fragment of autobiography...
...Twain Harte, Calif...
...snatched away by a stranger in "an outlaw balloon of sinister black-silken hue" as she sits crocheting in a gazebo. Sister Malvinia escapes the toils of Victorian family life in her own way: she makes a career as an actress and is courted by a singularly repulsive Mark Twain. Octavia marries a closet sadist and feather-boa fetishist. Constance Philippa runs away on her wedding night, leaving in her bed a dressmaker's dummy with which her unknowing husband consummates the marriage. Fleeing west, Constance disguises herself so persuasively as the brave and manly Philippe Fox that...