{"id":7961,"date":"2018-09-05T07:20:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T11:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=7961"},"modified":"2018-09-04T10:37:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T14:37:07","slug":"fan-fail-apologies-to-mr-twain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/fan-fail-apologies-to-mr-twain\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan Fail, apologies to Mr. Twain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I thought that I was a fan of Mark Twain’s work, though I would usually specify that I enjoyed his essays and sketches more than the novels he is typically known for.\u00a0 I have to admit, I am not a very good fan, perhaps of anything, because it never occurred to me to find out any more.\u00a0 I never knew that while working as a typesetting apprentice on his older brother’s newspaper he began penning humorous stories under pseudonyms, or that he would continue this pseudonymous writing on other papers.\u00a0 I knew that Mark Twain was a pseudonym, but I never knew that it was simply a later and greater pseudonym that followed:\u00a0 W. Epaminondas Adrastus Perkins, W. Epaminondas Adrastus Blab, Rambler, grumbler, Peter Pencilcase’s Son, John Snooks, and Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, and A Dog-Be-Deviled Citizen…\u00a0 A curious and, perhaps tenacious, view through Chronicling America<\/a> can call up some of these early articles (example left from the Hannibal Journal<\/em> September 16, 1852<\/a>).<\/p>\n

My fandom was renewed recently when reading Kipling’s account of searching out and meeting Mr. Samuel Clemens in his 1890 ‘Letter Twenty:\u00a0 Rudyard Kipling on Mark Twain’ in Kipling’s America:\u00a0 Travel Letters, 1889-1895.\u00a0 <\/em>Of course their conversation turned to copyright as it was one of Mr. Clemens’ favorite topics of the time.\u00a0 Of course this is what I was looking for, as it is one of my favorite topics now.<\/p>\n

For those of you who, like me, may want to improve their fandom of Mark Twain I highly recommend the PBS Documentary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought that I was a fan of Mark Twain’s work, though I would usually specify that I enjoyed his essays and sketches more than the novels he is typically known for.\u00a0 I have to admit, I am not a very good fan, perhaps of anything, because it never occurred to me to find out… Continue reading Fan Fail, apologies to Mr. Twain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[75,199,102,123],"class_list":["post-7961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-copyright","tag-history","tag-mark-twain","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6031,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/05\/09\/mark-twain-stories-150-years-old-uncovered-by-berkeley-scholars-books-the-guardian\/","url_meta":{"origin":7961,"position":0},"title":"Mark Twain stories, 150 years old, uncovered 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