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OF THE STEAMBOATS TRAVELING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER STOPPED IN HANNIBAL. ABOUT THREE A DAY. ABOUT 1,000 PER YEAR. AND YOUNG MAR TWAIN WOULD SEE THEM...
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OURSELVES BETTER AND ALSO TO HELP WRITERS TO WRITE A DIFFERENT KIND OF BOOK, BOOKS THAT TALKED, BOOKS THAT WERE INFUSED WITH THE VOICES OF REAL...
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HAPPEN? >> I DON'T KNOW. HARDLY ANYBODY STAYS FUNNY AS LONG AS MARK TWAIN HAS STAYED FUNNY. HE WAS AS ELVIS WAS TO
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ROCK
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AND ROLL, MARK TWAIN WAS TO WRITE
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WRITING. -- WAS TO
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WRITING. HE WAS FUNNY AND IN THE MIDST
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OF EVERYTHING HE DID. HE USED TO LIE IN BED AND WRITE, DICTATE, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, AND CONDUCT HIS BUSINESS AFFAIRS, ONE TIME HE WAS IN BED, LOOKING...
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OLD. HE STARTED SCHOOL HERE IN HANNIBAL. HE WAS ONLY ABLE TO GO THROUGH THE FIFTH GRADE BECAUSE HIS FATHER DIED WHEN HE WAS 12 YEARS OLD. THEN HE...
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THROUGH AN APPRENTICESHIP WITH THE NEWSPAPER. HIS MEMORY WAS ALWAYS VERY GOOD. AND THINKING BACK TO HIS BOYHOOD, THERE WERE MURDERS THAT TOOK PLACE...
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HERE TO KANSAS CITY, ABOUT 100 MILES FROM HERE TO ST. LOUIS. WE ARE 45 MILES FROM HIS BIRTH PLACE, WHICH YOU SEE THERE AS FLORIDA, MISSOURI, AND HIGHWAY...
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BOOKS, AND THEN BOOKS WRESTLING WITH TRAUMA. >> WHAT WERE SOME OF HIS MORE FAMOUS WRITINGS? >> HIS MASTERPIECE WAS HUCKLEBERRY FINN. HUCKLEBERRY FINN...
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IN HUCKLEBERRY FINN, HE WENT BACK TO IT
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IN HANNIBAL, IT MAY HAVE BEEN THE HADLYBERG. HE KEPT -- HADLYBURG, HE KEPT REPLAYING SCENES AND EVENTS FROM HIS LIFE, HE LET IT REFLECT NEW SHADOWS,...
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AND HE WROTE A SKETCH ABOUT -- THAT SOME OLD MINER
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TOLD HIM SOMEWHERE, AND IT WAS SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. HE GAINED A CERTAIN FAME, BUT NOT THE SORT OF RENOWNED HE WANTED, SO HE CAME EAST. >>...
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WITH DEMOCRACY DURING A VERY CORRUPT ERA, AND IT DID
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GIVE THE ERA ITS NAME. >> TO OUR VIEWERS WE'RE HAPPY YOU JOINED US. WE'LL BE HERE 2 1/2 HOURS, WE'RE IN HANNIBAL, MISSOURI, THE BOYHOOD HOME OF...
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CAN JOIN US TODAY -- 202-624-1111 IF YOU LIVE IN THE EASTERN/CENTRAL TIME ZONE, 202-624-111 5 IF YOU LIVE IN THE MOUNTAIN/PACIFIC TIME ZONE. WE ARE LOOKING...
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THE FIRST TRANSATLANTIC STEAMSHIP TRAVEL BEGAN. WHEN HE PUBLISHED HIS FIRST BOOK IN 1867, THE SAME YEAR DYNAMITE AND THE TYPEWRITER WERE INVENTED. ...
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HAD A BIG IMPACT ON TWAIN'S
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LIFE. BY THE END OF HIS LIFE THERE WERE MOTION PICTURES AND PHOTOGRAPHS. AND TWAIN, WHO WAS ANXIOUS TO TRY OUT EVERY NEW INVENTION, TRIED OUT BOTH, RECORDED...
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PILOT A STEAMBOAT UP AND DOWN THE RIVER. SO HE WENT INTO THE
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CONFEDERATE ARMY VERY BRIEFLY. HE WROTE AN ESSAY IN WHICH HE TALKED ABOUT HIS BRIEF AND INGLORIOUS SERVICE IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY. THIS WAS A BORDER...
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THAT A DOUBTER NEEDED ONLY TO LOOK TO THE BIBLE TO SET HIS MINE. IF THE SLAVES THEMSELVES HAD AN AVERSION TO SLAVERY, THEY WERE WISE AND SAID NOTHING....
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HORRENDUS SYSTEM AS BUSINESS AS USUAL. LATER HE WOULD WRITE ABOUT WHAT HE CALLED THE LIE OF SILENT ASSERTION, THE SILENT ASSERTION THAT NOTHING WAS...
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IT ON. IT WAS LIKE AMERICA'S GREAT SIN, HE TOOK IT ON AND WRESTLED WITH
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IT AND WAS INCREASINGLY OVERWHELMED BY IT AND YET FOUGHT THROUGH IT AND HIS WORK GOT DARKER AND DARKER AS HE BEGAN TO REALIZE THAT THIS IDYLLIC...
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CALLS FROM YOU. RANCHO CORDOVA, CALIFORNIA, FIRST UP. HELLO. CALLER: "LETTERS TO THE EARTH" HOW LONG DID IT TAKE TO GET PUBLISHED? I LOVE THE IRONY,...
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AND PUBLISHED AS -- >> WHAT ABOUT
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THE OTHER BOOK? >> IT WAS PUBLISHED AFTER HIS DEATH. SATAN COMES DOWN TO EARTH
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AND REPORTS WHAT HEAVEN IS LIKE. HE SAYS HE CAN'T UNDERSTAND
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HEAVEN BECAUSE EVERYTHING THEY DO THERE IS WHAT THEY DON'T WANT TO DO ON EARTH. HE SAID THAT VERY FEW PEOPLE
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LIKE TO SING ON EARTH, BUT IN HEAVEN THEY'RE CONSTANTLY SINGING
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AND CONSTANTLY PLAYING THE HARP. NOBODY WANTS TO PLAY THE HARP ON EARTH. >> NEWTON, KANSAS, YOU'RE NEXT. GOOD MORNING. CALLER: GOOD MORNING. I HAVE OFTENED...
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I'M WONDERING HOW MANY OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THAT AND WHAT YOUR REACTION AND YOUR RESPONSE TO THAT WOULD BE. >> THANKS. MR. BLOUNT, YOU SAID EARLIER,...
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SEEMED TO BE AN ENEMY BECAUSE OF HIS CLOTHES, HE SHOT HIM AND THEN TRIED TO BRING
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HIM BACK TO LIFE. THAT'S WHAT WAR IS LIKE, YOU SHOOT PEOPLE THAT IN NORMAL SITUATIONS YOU WOULD TRY TO BE PILOT TO. HE WAS AGAINST WAR. >> ST. LOUIS,...
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HE ARE REALIGNED HIS SYMPATHIES, AND FASHIONED HIMSELF AS A NORTHEASTERNER WHO WAS SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSED ABOUT HIS TWO WEEK STINT OF THIS RAGTAG
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| 00:20:43 |
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BAND OF CONFEDERATE IRREGULARS, HE LOOKED UP TO GRANT AND IT WAS AN HONOR FOR HIM TO WORK WITH GRANT. IT TURNED OUT TO BE GOOD FOR GRANT. HE WAS ABLE...
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| 00:21:32 |
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TWAIN'S WIFE IN A LOT OF WAYS, BECAUSE IT MADE HIM THINK THAT HE COULD MAKE LOTS OF MONEY AS A PUBLISHER, HE KEPT PUBLISHING THINGS LIKE "THE POPE'S"...
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ATHEIST, I WONDERED IF YOU COULD EXPOUND ON THIS AND THE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OF MARK TWAIN. >> THANK YOU. DIDN'T I READ THAT THIS IS WHAT HE THOUGHT...
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INTERESTED IN HER AND IN WRITING. HE WAS FOUND OF THAT BOOK. HE PUT A LOT OF RESEARCH INTO IT. HE LIKED IT BETTER THAN ANY OF THE CRITICS HAVE LIKED...
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SINCE. HIS RESPONSE TO RELIGION WAS COMPLICATED AND INCONSISTENT OVER THE COURSE OF HIS LIFE. HE WAS -- HE WAS RAISED IN -- IN A FUNDAMENTALIST COMMUNITY...
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HIS VOICE. HE WAS -- HE DIDN'T LIKE -- HE DIDN'T GO TO CHURCH, HE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN HEAVEN. HE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN A JUST GOD. HE DIDN'T SEE ANY JUSTICE...
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IN TYSONS CORNER, VIRGINIA. IT IS MARVELOUS. I'M WONDERING, WHY WAS IT BANNED? MY SECOND QUESTION IS LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI -- "LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI,"...
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LOOKING WONDERFUL. THIS REMINDS ME SO MUCH OF
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| 00:26:28 |
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MY GRANDFATHER. HE WAS BORN IN MISSOURI. HE ALWAYS -- HE ALWAYS STATED THAT WE WERE RELATED TO MARK TWAIN. ONE STORY THAT HE TOLD ALL OF
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| 00:26:39 |
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HIS GRANDCHILDREN THAT HE WAS CHASED BY A BEAR ONE DAY IN THE WOODS, AND HE HAD US ALL JUST TOTALLY ENTHRALLED, WHEN WE SAID, WELL, GRANDAD, WHAT...
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WHICH NOBODY HAS REPORTED, UNFORTUNATELY. OR IT WAS RECORDED
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BUT IT'S LOST. NOBODY KNOWS EXACTLY HOW HE SOUNDED BUT EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT THIS SLOW DRAWL AND HE NEVER SMILED AND ACTED LIKE HE WASN'T TELLING...
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BUILDING UP TO
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A CLIMAX AND SORT
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OF DOWN HOME. THE SECRET TO ALMOST ALL HUMOR IS TO APPEAR NOT TO
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| 00:28:16 |
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BE TRYING TO BE FUNNY. >> AND WE'LL TALK A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE CHILDHOOD OF MARK TWAIN IN THIS TOWN OF HANNIBAL, MISSOURI AND HOW IT LED TO SOME OF...
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| 00:28:38 |
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FROM 1844-1853. WHILE LIVING IN THIS HOUSE, SAM CLEMENS WAS GROWING UP FROM AGE 7-17. THE HOUSE, ITSELF, IS SITTING BUT TWO BLOCKS FROM THE MISSISSIPPI...
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BOATS CAME IN, SAM WOULD BE ONE OF THE FIRST ABLE TO BE THERE ON THE RIVER FRONT AND SEE THE BUSTLE AND ACTIVITY THAT WAS GOING ON THERE. YOU HAVE TO...
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| 00:33:08 |
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PRESIDENT? >> ABOUT SEVEN YEARS AND BEEN ON THE BOARD FOR NINE YEARS HERE IN HANNIBAL. >> SO, HENRY, I HAD TO GO OUT AND FIND A MARK TWAIN QUOTE ABOUT...
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| 00:33:16 |
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BOARDS FOR YOU BECAUSE I
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| 00:33:17 |
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KNEW YOU'D WANT ONE THIS
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MORNING. HERE IS WHAT HE SAID IN 1897. IN THE
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FIRST PLACE, GOD MADE IDIOTS. THIS WAS FOR PRACTICE. THEN HE MADE SCHOOL BOARDS. [LAUGHTER] >> I'M VERY FAMILIAR WITH THAT
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QUOTE. >> I BET YOU ARE. HOW DOES THIS SCHOOL BOARD, THOUGH, IN HANNIBAL, TAKE A
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| 00:33:34 |
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LOOK AT THE WRITINGS OF MARK TWAIN? WE'LL BE TALKING TO TEACHERS LATER BUT FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE? >> IT'S VERY INTERESTING THAT OF COURSE MARK TWAIN...
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HANNIBAL WITH THE CITIZENS AND THE
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TEACHERS, STUDENTS OF OUR TOWN. ALL OF OUR STUDENTS READ "TOM SAWYER" IN THE 7TH GRADE AND MANY READ
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IT IN HIGH SCHOOL IN TERMS OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. WE'VE NEVER HAD A QUESTION RAISED ABOUT THE APPROPRIATENESS OF THE MATERIALS AND HIS SHORT STORIES...
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FOR HOWLING ADVENTURES AMONGST THE INDIANS OUT IN THE TERRITORY. AND, SPECIFICALLY, THE ENDING OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN HAS OFTEN BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD WHEN,...
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| 00:35:36 |
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BEING BOOKS THAT ARE WORTH WHILE AND WORTH
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READING AND THEY'RE GLAD WE HAVE THEM. I'M NOT SURE THAT THEY REALLY ARE SEQUELS IN THE SENSE OF CONTINUING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHARACTERS THAT...
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EARLY 1990'S. IT HAD DISAPPEARED. I KNOW THIS IS HARD
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TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE FIRST HALF OF THE MANUSCRIPT FOR SUCH AN IMPORTANT BOOK COULD HAVE JUST DISAPPEARED, BUT IT HAD. THE STORY IS JAMES GLOCK, A LIBRARIAN...
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| 00:39:20 |
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THAT STILL HASN'T COME OUT. IT'S BEEN PUBLISHED IN VARIOUS SHORTENED FORMS. >> HERE IS ONE EXAMPLE. MY QUESTION
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| 00:39:27 |
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IS TO YOU, ROY BLOUNT, THAT WOULD MARK TWAIN FIND IT HUMOROUS THAT HE IS STILL SPEAKING FROM THE GRAVE TODAY BOTH IN THE NEWLY FOUND HUCKLEBERRY FINN...
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| 00:39:45 |
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TOP. IF HE THOUGHT ANYBODY ELSE WAS REMEMBERED AS THE GREAT -- ANY OTHER NOVEL WAS REMEMBERED AS THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL OTHER THAN HIS OWN HE'D SOMEHOW...
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| 00:39:59 |
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IS ANY PLACE IN AMERICA THAT REMEMBERS MARK TWAIN IT'S THIS. MY APOLOGIES TO THE HOTEL CLEMENS UP THE STREET WHERE I LIFTED THIS, BUT IF YOU GO DOWN...
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| 00:40:16 |
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INSURANCE COMPANY, THE MARK TWAIN DINETTE AND DRIVE IN. MARK TWAIN JEEP EAGLE. MARK TWAIN READY MIX COMPANY, MARK TWAIN SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER. THIS...
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| 00:40:51 |
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QUICK COMMENT AND TWO SHORT QUESTIONS IF I MAY. A TIMELY ARTICLE IN SATURDAY'S "NEW YORK TIMES", ARTS
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AND IDEAS, MENTIONED THE FORGOTTEN
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| 00:41:00 |
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TWAIN TALE FINALLY MAKES IT INTO PRINT, SUBTITLED A WRITER'S EFFORT AT A CONTEST ENDED WHEN HE WAS THE ONLY CONTESTANT. AND IT'S CALLED "A MURDER, A...
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AND REALLY
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MET AND I'LL GET OFF THE LINE AND PLEASE ANSWER THE FIRST QUESTION. THAT'S SO IMPORTANT TO ME IF I FIND OUT THE TRUTH ABOUT THAT STATEMENT. THANK...
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| 00:42:29 |
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THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN HARTFORD WHERE SHE LIVED AND WHERE TWAIN LIVED.
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| 00:42:32 |
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IT WAS A VERY LITERARY NEIGHBORHOOD AND VERY INTELLECTUAL. TWAIN MOVED THERE IN PART BECAUSE HE FOUND THE ATMOSPHERE OF ALL OF THESE LIVELY, SMART,...
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| 00:43:21 |
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TWAIN HAD SOMETHING -- HAD SAID SOMETHING THAT I DON'T TRUST A MAN WHO SPELLS THE SAME WORD EVERY TIME. HE NEVER SAID THAT. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE WAS...
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| 00:43:36 |
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THE CALLER BROUGHT UP SOMETHING WE NEED TO SHOW. THAT IS THE "ATLANTIC MONTHLY" WHICH IS JUST ON THE NEWS STANDS AND HE'S RIGHT, WE'RE VERY PLEASED...
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SKELETON PLOT AS HE CALLED IT AND GIVING IT TO 12 DIFFERENT AUTHORS AND GETTING EACH OF THEM TO WRITE A STORY ABOUT IT FOR THE "ATLANTIC MONTHLY." HIS...
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EDITOR AND HE THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA SO THEY WORKED UP THIS PLOT AND THEN HOWELL STARTED TO GET A FEW PEOPLE TO WRITE IT. NOBODY WANTED TO WRITE...
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| 00:47:17 |
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AS COMFORTABLE LOOKING AT THE EVOLUTION OF TWAIN'S VIEWS. PEOPLE WOULDN'T BE COMING TO HANNIBAL
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| 00:47:24 |
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IF IT WASN'T FOR WHAT TWAIN WROTE AFTER HE LEFT, IF IT WASN'T FOR HIS ADULT REVISITING OF THE SCENES OF HIS YOUTH. BUT I THINK THERE IS STILL MORE...
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| 00:49:25 |
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WE HAVE SOME VIDEO OF THE CABIN IN WHICH HE WAS BORN AND WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT THAT INSIDE, INCLUDING, I THINK IT WAS PART OF AN ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT...
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PART OWNER WITH HIS FATHER-IN-LAW'S HELP OF THE "BUFFALO EXPRESS." HIS PUBLICATIONS IN "THE
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| 00:50:45 |
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BUFFALO EXPRESS" HAVE RECENTLY COME OUT IN A PAPERBACK BOOK WHICH IS
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| 00:50:49 |
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VERY CONVENIENT AND AVAILABLE. IT WAS NOT A VERY HAPPY TIME FOR TWAIN MAINLY BECAUSE THERE WAS A LOT OF ILLNESS IN THE FAMILY DURING THAT PERIOD. HIS...
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| 00:52:12 |
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FOR $15,000 BUT YOU CAN SEE HE WANTED TO GET OUT OF BUFFALO. >> HOW DID HE GET THE NAME MARK TWAIN? >> THE STORY IS WHEN THEY WERE SOUNDING
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| 00:52:20 |
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THE DEPTH OF THE RIVER THEY'D THROW OUT THESE THINGS AND CHECK THE MARKS ON THE LINE AND THERE'S MARK SOMETHING -- WHEN IT GOT TO MARK TWAIN IT WAS...
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NAME FROM ANOTHER WRITER ON THE RIVER
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NAMED ISAIAH SELLERS I THINK AND HE -- BUT HE HAD MADE FUN OF HIM AS A YOUNG MAN. IT IS A LITTLE CLOUDY BUT THE ASSUMPTION IS IT HAD TO DO WITH THE,...
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| 00:53:21 |
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ALSO THOMAS JEFFERSON SNODGRASS
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AND I THINK WE'RE ALL RELIEVED THAT WE CAN TALK ABOUT TWAIN INSTEAD OF
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| 00:53:33 |
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SNODGRASS. BUT IT ALSO WAS SOMETHING THAT LOTS OF HIS PEERS DID AND INDEED SOME
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| 00:53:39 |
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OF THEM ARE KNOWN MORE BY THEIR PSEUDONYMS THAN THEIR REAL NAMES AS HE WAS. YOU KNOW, AND THERE WERE OTHER HUMAN RIFTS WHO BECAME KNOWN BY THE NAMES...
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| 00:54:15 |
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ANOTHER QUESTION IS DID MARK TWAIN ACTUALLY SAY DON'T LET SCHOOL INTERFERE WITH THEIR
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EDUCATION? >> SOUNDS LIKE HE MIGHT WELL HAVE. >>
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| 00:54:24 |
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WAS THAT ONE OF HIS QUOTES? >> IT SOUNDS RIGHT. I CAN'T REMEMBER WHERE BUT I'VE SEEN IT MANY TIMES AND I HAVEN'T SEEN IT CHALLENGED. >> DANVILLE,...
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TO CAIRO WHEN THEY
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SIMPLY COULD HAVE
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CROSSED THE RIVER TO FREEDOM IN ILLINOIS OR GOTTEN OFF AT ANY POINT
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| 00:54:52 |
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BETWEEN HANNIBAL AND CAIRO? AND MY COMMENT IS, I WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND TO THE C-SPAN AUDIENCE THE MUSIC OF JOHN HARTFORD, A BLUE GRASS MUSICIAN...
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| 00:55:49 |
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OH, IT'S WINDY THIS MORNING --
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| 00:55:51 |
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WHEN HE WAS ACTUALLY INVOLVED IN BEING ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AS A STEAM BOAT CAPTAIN? >> WELL,
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| 00:55:56 |
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BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR HE WAS APPARENTLY A PRETTY GOOD ONE. HE APPRENTICED UNDER A MAN NAMED BIXBY WHO HAD SEVERAL EXPLOSIONS UNDER HIS -- IT WAS A REALLY...
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| 00:56:17 |
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THREE OR FOUR TRIPS AND IF THEY BLEW UP AND KILLED A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WAS JUST TOO BAD. >> THAT MUST HAVE BEEN A LOT OF STEAM SHIPS THEN BECAUSE ...
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| 00:56:43 |
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PLOT -- ONE OF
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| 00:56:47 |
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THE ABSURDITIES OF THIS SKELETON PLOT THING WAS THAT MARK TWAIN WAS BAD AT PLOTS BUT ONCE HE COULD GET THE LANGUAGE MOVING ALONG LIKE THE RIVER AND...
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| 00:57:24 |
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SAM WAS ABOUT 4 YEARS
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OLD. WHEN THEY MOVED INTO THE HOME. THE FAMILY
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| 00:57:29 |
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CONSISTED OF MR. AND MRS. CLEMENS, THE OLDER SISTER PAMELA, AS WELL AS HIS SISTER PAM,
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| 00:57:39 |
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ORION THE PRINTING TRADE. RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN THE
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TRADE. RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN THE BACK UPSTAIRS BEDROOM. THIS IS A ROOM THAT SAM CLEMENS SHARED WITH HIS YOUNGER BROTHER HENRY IN REAL LIFE. MARK TWAIN...
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| 01:01:16 |
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SCIENTIFIC DISCUSSION GROUPS
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| 01:01:18 |
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THAT CAME TOGETHER AND MANY TIMES THEY WOULD IMMEDIATE AT THE CLEMENS HOUSE IN THIS FRONT PARLOR. AFTER MRS. CLEMENS DIED PAMELA GAVE PIANO AND GUITAR...
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| 01:03:09 |
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YAP." >> COVINGTON, VIRGINIA, YOU'RE NEXT. CALLER: I HAVE SEVERAL QUESTIONS, AND I WILL HANG UP AND LISTEN TO THE ANSWER. I WOULD BE CURIOUS IF MR. BLOUNT...
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| 01:03:29 |
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FROM CL-E-M-E-N-T-S, AND IF HIS FATHER EMIGRATED FROM VIRGINIA, AND WHERE I COULD FIND THE BIOGRAPHY OF HIS FATHER, AND WHERE I CAN FIND THE COMPLETE...
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| 01:04:15 |
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THAT WAS BENJAMIN DEPRANK FRANKLIN, NOW WE'RE -- BENJAMIN FRANG LYNN, NOW WE'RE MOVING -- FRANKLIN, AND NOW WE'RE MOVING INTO THIS PERIOD. >> MARK...
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| 01:04:51 |
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THE WORLD OF HUMOR. IT WASN'T HIS INTRODUCTION TO HUMOR, OF COURSE, BUT IT WAS HIS INTRODUCTION TO A PART OF THAT WORLD THAT WOULD HAVE AN IMPORTANT...
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| 01:05:30 |
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THAT THE INFLUENCES ON MARK TWAIN WAS LESS THROUGH PUBLISHED THINGS THAN THEY WERE SLAVES WHO TOLD HIM STORIES WHEN HE WAS A KID AND
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| 01:05:41 |
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LATER ON WHEN HE WAS A MAN. THERE WERE LOTS OF HUMORS BACK THEN, WHO DON'T HOLD UP WELL AT ALL, THEY TENDED TO WRITE VERY HEAVY DIALECT, AND DIALECT THAT...
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| 01:06:41 |
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TO SATIRE WAS A SLAVE
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| 01:06:45 |
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NAMED JERRY, WHO
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| 01:06:48 |
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TWAIN LATER REMEMBERED AS THE GREATEST ORATOR OF THE COUNTRY, HE PREACHED THE SERMONS THAT TWAIN WOULD LISTEN TO DAILY, EVEN THOUGH HIS MOTHER DIDN'T...
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| 01:08:49 |
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BEFORE SAM CLEMENS, YOU HAVE TO GO BACK SIX OR SEVEN GENERATIONS BEFORE YOU FIND THE T IN THE NAME. HE AND HIS FATHER DID NOT USE THE T. >> ANY
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| 01:09:00 |
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BACKGROUND WITH VIRGINIA IN THE FAMILY? >> THE FATHER WAS BORN IN VIRGINIA. >> HER QUESTION WAS WHETHER THERE WAS A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FATHER. >> THERE'S...
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| 01:09:21 |
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ON MARK TWAIN, BUT IT'S NOT GENERALLY AVAILABLE, BUT I COULD CERTAINLY
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| 01:09:25 |
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GET HIS ADDRESS TO SOMEONE WHO WOULD
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| 01:09:27 |
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BE INTERESTED IN TRACKING THE FAMILY DOWN. >> WHY DON'T YOU GIVE US YOUR
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| 01:09:31 |
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ADDRESS. >> OUR AGRESS HERE AT THE MARK TWAIN -- OUR ADDRESS HERE AT THE MARK TWAIN HUMAN, IS HILL STREET, HANNIBAL, MISSOURI, 62301. >> SANTA FE, NEW...
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| 01:09:50 |
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GO AHEAD, SANTA
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| 01:09:53 |
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FE. SORRY, WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE THAT CALL. LET'S GO TO NEW YORK NEXT. CALLER: HELLO. JUST A MOMENT. >> YOU'VE GOT TO TURN YOUR TELEVISION SET DOWN....
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| 01:10:09 |
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I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT THE EARLIEST EVIDENCE OF MARK TWAIN'S EFFECT ON THE FEELINGS OF RACISM AND SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES. >> SO WHEN DID...
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| 01:10:23 |
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A REALLY INTERESTING QUESTION. WE DON'T REALLY HAVE A WAY OF KNOWING WHAT THE EFFECT WAS OF ALL OF HIS -- ALL OF HIS WORK. THERE IS NOT NECESSARILY...
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| 01:10:39 |
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RACISM IN SAN FRANCISCO TOWARD THE CHINESE WHEN HE WAS A JOURNALIST THERE IN
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| 01:10:43 |
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THE 1860'S, DID THIS HAVE AN EFFECT ON PEOPLE'S ATTITUDES, WELL, IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE THAT YOU COULD READ THESE POWERFUL SATIRES ON HOW THE POLICE...
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| 01:12:20 |
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TENDS TO EMPATHIZE WITH VARIOUS GOOD AND BAD PEOPLE IN HIS BOOKS, AND HE -- SO IT'S NOT LIKE HE HAS A SIMPLE AGENDA. IT'S LIKE HE COULDN'T GET OVER
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| 01:12:30 |
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THE TAINT THE SLAVERY, IT KEPT BUBBLING UP IN HIM. AS I WROTE IN "MURDER, MYSTERY, MARRIAGE," IT WAS WHEN AMERICA WAS GIVING UP ON RECONSTRUCTION....
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| 01:14:44 |
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THAT MARK TWAIN WAS HERE. >> AT THE TIME THAT THE CLEMENS' FAMILY MOVED TO HANNIBAL, THE RIVER WAS THE METHOD OF TRANSPORTATION FOR EVERYONE. EVERYTHING...
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| 01:15:07 |
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THAT LANDED IN HANNIBAL DURING THAT ONE YEAR. A STEAMBOAT WOULD CARRY ANYWHERE FROM 200 TO 800 TONS OF CARGO. NOT ALL OF THAT WOULD BE UNLOADED IN...
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| 01:16:39 |
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THAT AS A BOY HE SAT WITH HIS CHIN IN HIS HANDS AND LOOKED OUT AT THE RIVER. WITH YOUR DOCUMENT THERE IT LOOKS LIKE HE WAS VERY ACTIVE AS WELL AS THINKING...
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| 01:17:31 |
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CIVIL WAR STOPPED THE TRAFFIC ON THE RIVER, HE STOPPED BEING A RIVER BOAT CAPTAIN, AND WHAT DID HE
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| 01:17:37 |
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DO? >> HIS BROTHER ORION HELPED TO GET LINCOLN ELECTED, AS REWARD
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| 01:17:43 |
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FOR HIS WORK IN THE CAMPAIGN, HE WAS GIVEN A
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| 01:17:47 |
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PLUM ASSIGNMENT,
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| 01:17:48 |
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HE WAS SECRETARY OF THE NEVADA TERRITORY. TWAIN WAS OUT OF A JOB, AND HE WENT OUT TO NEVADA AS SECRETARY TO THE SECRETARY. THIS, OF COURSE, WAS THE...
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| 01:18:00 |
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WHICH WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO HIM. HE THOUGHT THAT HE WOULD STRIKE IT RICH IN A SILVER -- IN A SILVER MIND, AND THANK GOODNESS HE DIDN'T, BECAUSE HE WASN'T...
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| 01:18:56 |
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HOUSE WITH HIS FRIENDS. IT TOOK HIM A WHILE TO ESTABLISH HIMSELF AS A LECTURER, BUT HE WAS AN
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| 01:19:03 |
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AWFULLY GOOD LECTURER, ONCE HE GOT HIS TECHNIQUE DOWN, HE FOUND HE COULD STAND ON THE STAGE WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING. HE WOULD WALK ON THE STAGE AND ACT...
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| 01:20:08 |
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HE HEADED OUT TO SAN FRANCISCO, WORKED FOR VARIOUS PAPERS, AND ONE OF THEM SENT HIM OUT TO
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| 01:20:17 |
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HAWAII. HIS EARLIEST LECTURES WERE ABOUT THAT. >> WHAT DID HE FIND IN HAWAII? >> HE GIVES US SOME INTERESTING SCENERY OF HAWAII DURING THE 1860'S, HE...
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| 01:20:44 |
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TWAIN. WE HAVE A LOT TO TALK ABOUT AS HE HEADS
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| 01:20:46 |
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BACK EAST AND STARTS HIS WRITING. ABOUT WHAT -- WHAT YEAR ARE WE UP TO IN TERMS OF BEING IN CALIFORNIA, STARTING THE LECTURE CIRCUIT, WRITING FOR THE...
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| 01:20:59 |
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HE'S LEAVING CALIFORNIA, IT'S 1867, AND HE'S GOING TO GET ON A BOAT CALLED THE QUAKER CITY, WHICH IS GOING TO TAKE HIM ON REALLY ONE OF THE FIRST ORGANIZED...
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| 01:21:19 |
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L.A. SEISS, AND HE IS GOING TO SING US A SONG BY STEPHEN FOSTER, WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN WRITING DOURG THIS PERIOD OF THE CIVIL WAR. >> (music) MAUCH GOES...
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| 01:21:43 |
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OH, LOUISIANA I'M GOING TO LEAVE THIS TOWN OLD LOUISIANA GOING DOWN TO
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| 01:21:55 |
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THE ENGLISH TOWN (music) [HAR MAN CA PLAYS] [HARMONICA PLAYS] (music). >> THE AUTHOR, HUMORIST AND SOCIAL COMMENTATOR WITH THE PEN NAME...
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| 01:25:43 |
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OF ELMIRA, NEW YORK. THEY HAD FOUR CHILDREN, THREE GIRLS AND ONE BOY, AND THE FAMILY SETTLED IN HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT. "THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY...
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| 01:27:43 |
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IS HILL STREET. MARK TWAIN LIVED ON THIS STREET AS A YOUNG BOY. HIS FAMILY CAME HERE WHEN HE WAS 4 YEARS OLD AND STAYED FOR SOME YEARS. THIS IS HILL...
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| 01:28:43 |
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HUMORIST. I WANTED TO BE A FUNNY WRITER. AND I WROTE FOR "THE NEW YORKER" AND SOME THINGS THAT WERE SORT OF IN "THE NEW YORKER" TRADITION. I BEGAN TO...
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| 01:29:27 |
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GET
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| 01:29:29 |
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INVOLVED WITH MARK TWAIN? >> WELL, MY MOTHER TOOK ME TO THE MARK TWAIN HOUSE IN HARTFORD WHEN I WAS 10 AND WE'LL BE SEEING PICTURES OF THAT LATER. IT...
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| 01:29:40 |
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HOUSES IN AMERICA. THAT CAUGHT MY INTEREST BEFORE I HAD ACTUALLY READ ANY MARK TWAIN MYSELF. I THINK I HAD TOM SAWYER READ TO ME AS A BEDTIME STORY...
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| 01:29:50 |
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SHORT STORIES AND REALLY GETTING EXCITED ABOUT THEM. BUT WHEN MY TEACHER IN MY JUNIOR YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL HANDED OUT HUCK FINN AND READ US THE ASSIGNMENT...
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| 01:31:43 |
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TO ELMIRA, NEW YORK WHERE I LOOKED AT THE ROLES THAT COMMUNITY PLAYED IN HIS DEVELOPMENT.
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| 01:31:48 |
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I LOOK AT TWAIN'S ROLE IN AMERICAN CULTURE TODAY AND WHAT WE DO WITH HIM AND WHAT WE DON'T DO WITH HIM IN THE CLASSROOM, IN THE SPHERE OF POPULAR CULTURE,...
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| 01:32:24 |
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IT'S THE CHRISTMAS, 1923, SIGNED TO SOMEBODY, AND YOU'RE SPEAKING OF GENERAL GRANT'S GRAMMER AND THERE IS A FIRST THING ABOUT MATTHEW ARNOLD'S -- IT...
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| 01:33:09 |
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THAN THEY DO IN ARNOLD'S CRITICISM OF THE BOOK. AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. BYE-BYE. >> THANKS. NEXT CALL, DENVER, COLORADO....
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| 01:33:36 |
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ACTUALLY INFLUENCE AN ORDINARY WRITER, HIS SOLITARY EXPERIENCE,
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| 01:33:42 |
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AND, ALSO, HOW DOES THAT WORK INFLUENCE THE RECENT WRITERS LIKE ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND SUCH? THANK YOU. >> DID MARK TWAIN INFLUENCE OTHER WRITERS? >>...
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| 01:34:14 |
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BLACK AND WHITE, INTO A
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| 01:34:16 |
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WONDERFULLY FLOWING AND IS UP L PROSE STYLE AND HAS INFLUENCED -- AND SUPPLE PROSE STYLE AND IT HAS INFLUENCED JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY. IF SOMEBODY IS...
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| 01:34:51 |
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AND ACCESSIBLE AND ENJOYABLE WAY BUT HE HAS ALSO
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| 01:34:54 |
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INFLUENCED WRITERS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER FROM JAPAN, WHO ALWAYS CITES HUCKLEBERRY FINN AS THE BOOK THAT WAS CRUCIAL...
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| 01:36:06 |
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DOES THAT SURPRISE YOU? I MEAN, HOW DID MARK TWAIN
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| 01:36:09 |
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GET INTO THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SOMEONE WHO
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| 01:36:11 |
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LIVES IN THOSE COUNTRIES? >> IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE MARK TWAIN TRANSLATED INTO
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| 01:36:17 |
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TURKISH. I'D LIKE TO SEE IT DONE. I REALLY THINK HE HAS SOMETHING FLUID ABOUT HIS PROSE. I MEAN,
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| 01:36:25 |
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HOW THE RIGHT WORD IS FOUND IN
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| 01:36:27 |
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TURKISH I DON'T KNOW. BUT HE SAID THE RIGHT WORD, THE JUST RIGHT WORD COMES ELECTRICALLY PROMPT. >>
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| 01:36:34 |
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THE NEXT CALL IS FROM SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO. CALLER: GOOD MORNING. CAN YOU HEAR ME? >> YES. CALLER: I HAVE BEEN VERY MUCH ENJOYING THIS SERIES, TOO....
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| 01:36:55 |
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THE FLOODING AND I APPRECIATED HIS OBSERVATIONS AS A
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| 01:36:59 |
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NATURALIST. BUT, RECENTLY, I TRAVELED TO FRANCE AND STUMBLED ACROSS HIS "JOAN OF ARC" BIOGRAPHY. I WAS KIND OF SURPRISED AND FOUND -- I WAS INTERESTED...
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| 01:37:37 |
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NARRATEORS DESCRIBING HER LIFE STORY. BUT HE ALSO
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| 01:37:39 |
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REALLY LIKED THE IDEA THAT THIS WAS A TOTALLY RESPECTABLE BOOK. THERE IS VERY LITTLE HUMOR IN IT AND FOR THOSE MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY WHO
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| 01:37:48 |
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WERE SLIGHTLY UNCOMFORTABLE
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| 01:37:49 |
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WITH THE IDEA OF HIS BEING PRIMARILY A HUMORIST, THIS WAS THEIR BOOK. THIS WAS A BOOK WHICH WAS NOBLE IN ITS ASPIRATIONS AND WHICH IS NOT A BAD...
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| 01:38:25 |
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TO EUROPE IN EXCHANGE FOR WRITING ARTICLES ABOUT HIS TRIP. THIS WAS THE FIRST VENTURE IN MASS TOURISM
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| 01:38:32 |
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FROM AMERICA. PEOPLE HAD GONE ON TOURS OF EUROPE BUT MAINLY IT HAD BEEN INDIVIDUALS OR PARTICULARLY WEALTHY MEN AND WOMEN WHO WOULD DO THIS AS PART...
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| 01:39:28 |
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THAT PERIOD
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| 01:39:29 |
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OF TIME, THE MENTALITY, WAS IT UNUSUAL FOR SOMEONE GROWING UP IN A TOWN OF THIS SIZE
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| 01:39:35 |
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TO ALL AT ONCE TAKE OFF AND GO OUT WEST AND
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| 01:39:38 |
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THEN GO TO
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| 01:39:39 |
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EUROPE AND END UP ON
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| 01:39:40 |
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THE EAST COAST TRAVELING ALL OVER OR WAS
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| 01:39:42 |
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IT MORE LIKELY THAT PEOPLE WOULD KIND OF STAY IN THEIR HOME TOWN? HOW DID IT COME TO THIS? >> I THINK HE WAS AN UNUSUAL MEMBER OF HANNIBAL'S POPULATION...
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| 01:40:09 |
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ELSE AND HIS IMAGINATION WAS AWFULLY RICH AND HE IMAGINED HIMSELF A PILOT AND ALL SORTS OF THINGS. HE WAS -- IT'S HARD TO KNOW WHAT MAKES A KID THAT...
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| 01:40:46 |
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THE CLIMATE AND HELL FOR THE COMPANY. THANK YOU. [LAUGHTER] >> YES, HE PUT DOWN HEAVEN QUITE OFTEN. HE SAID THERE IS NO SENSE OF HUMOR. THERE IS NO...
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| 01:40:58 |
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IN HEAVEN. NOBODY NEEDS IT THERE. >> HONOLULU? ARE YOU THERE? CALLER: YES. >> YOU'RE ON THE AIR. GO AHEAD. CALLER: TO GO BACK TO THE FAR WEST, MARK...
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| 01:41:13 |
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KNEW HAWAII QUITE WELL AND I LIVE IN AN AREA PRETTY CLOSE TO HONOLULU AND THIS IS WHAT HE WROTE ABOUT THIS VALLEY. HOW SOFT
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| 01:41:23 |
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THE SHADOWS LIE UPON THE STATELY MOUNTAINS THAT BORDER THE
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| 01:41:29 |
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DREAM HAUNTED MINOA. WHEN HE WENT DOWN TO THE BIG ISLAND HE PLANTED A BANYON TREE AT THE SOUTHERN MOST POINT OF THE UNITED STATES, FAR SOUTH OF EITHER...
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| 01:42:11 |
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HORSE AND THEY SHOT HIM AND THEN WISHED THEY
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| 01:42:14 |
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HADN'T. AND THEY DECIDED THEY HAD BETTER DISBAND AND THEY ARGUED ABOUT WHO WAS GOING TO BE THE LIEUTENANT AND THE SERGEANT AND IT ACTUALLY WAS PRETTY...
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| 01:42:56 |
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HE WANTED TO SPEND THE REST OF HIS LIFE WITH. IT TOOK AWHILE TO PERSUADE BOTH HER AND HER
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| 01:43:01 |
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FAMILY THAT THIS SHOULD BE. BUT IT WAS COURTING OLIVIA LANGDON THAT INITIALLY BROUGHT TWAIN TO UPSTATE NEW YORK AND MARRYING HER HE ENDED UP SETTLING...
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| 01:43:39 |
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SELLER. IT HADN'T HAPPENED YET. THE FATHER OF OLIVIA LANGDON, JERVIS, WAS A
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| 01:43:45 |
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COAL MAGNATE IN BUFFALO, A VERY, VERY WEALTHY MAN AND HIS WEALTH WAS CERTAINLY A GREAT CONTRAST TO EVERYTHING THAT TWAIN HAD EXPERIENCED IN HIS OWN...
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| 01:45:06 |
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ACTUALLY PUBLISHED. >> ACTUALLY, AT THIS POINT TWAIN
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| 01:45:09 |
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HAS MOVED TO HARTFORD AND SPENDS SUMMERS IN ELMIRA AND THEY'RE BOTH VERY,
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| 01:45:14 |
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VERY IMPORTANT PARTS OF HIS LIFE. IN 1871 THE FAMILY MOVES TO ELMIRA. BY 1874 THEY'VE CONSTRUCTED AN AMAZING -- I'M SORRY -- THEY MOVED TO HARTFORD...
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| 01:45:28 |
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LIVE IN UNTIL THE EARLY 1890'S WHICH IS AN INCREDIBLE MANSION THAT WILL BE THE SITE OF ALL KINDS OF WONDERFUL ENCOUNTERS AND EXPERIENCES FOR TWAIN....
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| 01:46:45 |
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AFTER "TOM SAWYER" AND
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| 01:46:49 |
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BEFORE "HUCK FINN" AND HE CAME BACK TO HANNIBAL AND GOES DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI. HE CAME BACK TO HANNIBAL AT VARIOUS POINTS BUT FOR THE MOST PART HE WAS
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| 01:46:59 |
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REMEMBERING AND IMAGINING HANNIBAL AS HE SAT IN THIS
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| 01:47:02 |
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HOME IN ELMIRA THAT YOU'RE
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| 01:47:04 |
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SEEING. IT HAS A RIVER, IT HAS HILLS, IT HAS
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| 01:47:08 |
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A CAVE. IT HAS A MULTIRACIAL GROUP OF KIDS RUNNING AROUND BECAUSE THEY WERE THE CHILDREN OF JOHN LEWIS WHO WAS A TENANT FARMER LIVING NEARBY AND MARIANNE...
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| 01:48:04 |
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FINN. WHAT DO YOU TEACH HERE? >> I TEACH COLLEGE PREP ENGLISH 11 AND APPLIED COMMUNICATIONS ENGLISH 12. >> AND WHAT SPECIFIC MARK TWAIN WORKS DO YOU...
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| 01:48:26 |
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I'LL ASK YOU, I KNOW YOU'RE AT A RESTAURANT NEARBY HERE AND EVERYBODY IS WATCHING BUT I NEED ALL THE TV SETS TURNED DOWN
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| 01:48:33 |
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BECAUSE I'M GETTING A LOT OF FEEDBACK IN MY EAR. THANK YOU. WHAT IS THE EXPERIENCE OF TEACHING "THE ADVENTURES OF
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| 01:48:40 |
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HUCKLEBERRY FINN" IN THE SCHOOL IN HANNIBAL, MISSOURI? >> IT'S A CHALLENGING EXPERIENCE TO TEACH "THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN" IN THE TOWN WHERE...
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| 01:48:48 |
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UP AND THE TOWN THAT HE EPIT MIZED -- HE EPITOMIZED IN HIS BOOK. THE STUDENTS HAVE ALREADY READ "THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN" AS 7TH GRADERS SO
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| 01:49:03 |
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HAVE SOME KNOWLEDGE OF TWAIN AND HIS WRITING. WE TEACH "THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN" ON THE 11TH GRADE LEVEL BECAUSE WE FEEL THE STUDENTS CAN...
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| 01:49:34 |
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LOOK AT "THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN" AS
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| 01:49:37 |
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A WRITING IN WHICH
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| 01:49:39 |
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| 01:49:40 |
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TWAIN FOCUSED ON SOCIETY AND SINCE
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| 01:49:44 |
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THIS IS AN AMERICAN LIT COURSE THAT I TEACH, THE COLLEGE PREP ENGLISH 11, WE FEEL THAT IT IS NECESSARY AT THAT POINT FOR
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| 01:49:55 |
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THE STUDENTS TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS A BROADER WORLD OUT THERE AND DIFFERENT WAYS IN WHICH WRITERS CAN PRESENT THE VARIOUS TOPICS SOCIETY IS DEALING...
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| 01:50:26 |
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LIBRARIES. IT'S A DIFFICULT THING I THINK FOR AN ADOLESCENT -- AFRICAN-AMERICAN KIDS TO READ A BOOK IN WHICH THE MAIN BLACK CHARACTER IS SORT OF JERKED...
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| 01:50:43 |
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POWERLESS AND IS DEPENDENT UPON WHITE PEOPLE, INCLUDING SOME YOUNG KIDS. AND HE IS NOT EDUCATED. HE'S NOT -- THE THING ABOUT JIM AS A CHARACTER IS...
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| 01:52:31 |
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SATIRE THAT MARK TWAIN USED AND THAT OF THE CHARACTER THAT CAROLL O'CONNER PLAYED? >> WELL, THEY WERE CERTAINLY BOTH HAVING A LOT OF RACISM AND THERE...
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| 01:52:48 |
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MESSAGE OF BOTH WAS THE SAME WHICH IS THAT RACISM WAS WRONG OF COURSE. >> THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO LEAVE IT AT THAT. WE NEED TO KEEP MOVING ON. >> I...
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| 01:53:00 |
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ARCHIE BUNKER THE CHARACTER THAT CAROLL O'CONNER PLAYED AND PAP FINN IN HUCKLEBERRY FINN. PAP FINN ISN'T NEARLY AS APPEALING AS ARCHIE BUNKER WAS....
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| 01:53:12 |
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BUNKER WAS NECESSARILY LOVABLE BUT HE WAS SOMEONE WHO WAS PORTRAYED AS BEING SOMEWHAT SYMPATHETIC. THE
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| 01:53:19 |
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WHOLE IDEA OF PRESENTING RACIST CHARACTERS IN ALL OF THEIR OFFENSIVENESS IS CERTAINLY A TRADITION THAT "ALL IN THE FAMILY" CARRIED ON FROM TWAIN AND...
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| 01:54:38 |
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AS THE EARLIER STUFF. I READ THE EARLIER STUFF BECAUSE I WAS A KID AND ENJOYED READING "THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN" AND THE EARLIER STORIES....
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| 01:55:15 |
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ALL OF THESE NICE FOLKS. IT IS A MESSY AND WEIRD AND CRAZY BOOK.
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| 01:55:22 |
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HIS BROTHER HENRY WAS BLOWN UP IN A STEAMBOAT, AND AT ONE POINT -- AND IT MAKE MARK TWAIN GUILTY THE REST OF HIS LIFE BECAUSE HE LEFT HIM ON THE STEAMBOAT....
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| 01:56:36 |
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HEMMINGWAY? YOU -- THIS IS GREAT WORK, BUT YOU CAN'T PUT IT OUT THERE, BUT YOU CAN'T LET PEOPLE SEE
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| 01:56:42 |
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IT. THERE'S STILL AN ELEMENT OF THAT IN MARK TWAIN. >> NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. CALLER: HELLO, I CAN'T LET THIS WONDERFUL PROGRAM GO BY WITHOUT HAL HOLBROOK...
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| 01:57:07 |
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SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN COULD HAVE ANY COMMENT ON THAT. THANK YOU. >> I JUST GLOSSED OVER THAT. I THOUGHT HE DID A WONDERFUL JOB. I SAW IT MANY YEARS...
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| 01:57:32 |
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OF HIS OWN WORK, HE PERFORMED ON THE LECTURE PLATFORM THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE AND THE ONLY WAY THAT MODERN AUDIENCES CAN HAVE ANY SENSE OF WHAT THAT FELT
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| 01:57:42 |
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LIKE IS
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| 01:57:43 |
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TO BE IN THE AUDIENCE WHEN HAL HOLBROOK IS PERFORMING MARK TWAIN. >> WE ARE LOOKING AT THE ANNEX OF THE MARK TWAIN MUSEUM. >> I'LL GO THROUGH THE WHOLE...
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| 01:58:11 |
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A QUOTE. HIS QUOTE WAS THAT HUMAN NATURE CANNOT BE STUDIED IN CITIES EXCEPT AT A DISADVANTAGE, A VILLAGE IS THE PLACE, THERE YOU CAN KNOW
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| 01:58:20 |
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A MAN INSIDE AND OUT. IN
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| 01:58:22 |
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A CITY, YOU BUT KNOW HIS CRUST, AND HIS CRUST IS USUALLY A LIE. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT? >> I THINK IF YOU LOOK AT ANY OF OUR LARGE CITIES TODAY,...
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| 01:58:51 |
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PART OF HIS LIFE, AND I WOULD LIKE TO SHOW YOU AROUND SEVERAL OF OUR EXHIBITS. FIRST OF ALL, WE HAVE A SET OF PICTURES TAKEN BY MARK TWAIN'S BIOGRAPHER,...
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| 01:59:02 |
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SEVEN OF THESE AND STARRED TO WRITE ON THEM. HE WROTE OUT WHAT HE
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| 01:59:05 |
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CALLED THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD PURPOSE THROUGH THE MIND OF THE HUMAN RACIST'S OLDEST FRIEND. HE STARTED OUT, SHALL I LEARN TO BE GOOD? I SHALL SIT...
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| 02:02:46 |
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HANNIBAL FOR SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT WE OFFER. >> HOW OFTEN ARE YOU HOPE? >>
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| 02:02:51 |
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WE'RE OPENED YEAR ROUND, WE ARE OPENED SEVEN DAYS A WEEK OTHER THAN THE MAJOR HOLIDAYS. >> HENRY SWEETS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ROY BLOUNT, IT'S 1884...
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| 02:03:10 |
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TOM SAWYER. READ FOR US A QUOTE FROM IT.
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| 02:03:13 |
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WHAT IS THIS? >> I'M NOT THIS IS FROM HUCKLEBERRY FINN.
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| 02:03:18 |
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OH, THIS THING. YES, THE HUCKLEBERRY FINN THING. YES. WHEN YOU GOT TO THE TABLE YOU COULDN'T GO RIGHT TO EATING, BUT YOU HAD TO WAIT FOR THE WIDOW TO...
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| 02:03:36 |
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VITUALS. >> WE ASKED YOU EACH TO BRING A QUOTE FROM HUCKLEBERRY FINN, YOU BOTH CHOSE THAT SAME QUOTE. WHY? >> THIS COMES EARLY IN THE BOOK, IT IS...
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| 02:04:06 |
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GRUMBLE OVER THE FOOD, AND WE KNOW THEY'RE SAYING GRACE, BUT HE DOESN'T KNOW THAT. IT'S HOW TWAIN LET'S THE
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| 02:04:14 |
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READER KNOW THAT THERE IS A CONSCIENCENESS BEHIND THIS, THERE ARE LOTS OF WAYS THAT HE DOES THAT WITH HIS NOTICE, ANYBODY MINDING A MORAL IN THE...
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| 02:05:00 |
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BOTH SIDES DURING THE WAR, AND THEN HE MET A DAUGHTER OF AN ABOLITIONIST AND GOT IN TIGHT WITH THE INTELLECTALS, AND -- AND -- BUT THE FIRST ELECTION...
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| 02:05:20 |
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ROOTED STRONGLY FOR HAYES, HIS FRIEND DIDN'T GET EXCITED ABOUT THE LECKS, AND TWAIN SAID, WHO WILL YOU VOTE FOR? AND HARTE SAID, I CAN'T VOTE, I HAVE...
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| 02:07:23 |
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KINGSPORT,
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| 02:07:25 |
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TENNESSEE. CALLER: HELLO. I'VE BEEN AMAZED WHEN I WAS IN EUROPE, HIS OBSERVATIONS FROM 120 YEARS AGO IS STILL TRUE TODAY. HERE'S MY QUESTION FOR ROY...
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| 02:07:45 |
CALLER, -
TO -- I READ HIS BOOKS, DID MARK TWAIN ELECTURES SPOIL YOU FROM READING TWAIN THE WAY THAT GAREISSON KEELER SPOILS YOU FROM READING GARRISON KEELER?...
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| 02:08:26 |
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HOW I WAS DOING. MARK TWAIN, PEOPLE HAVE TOLD ME
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| 02:08:30 |
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THAT THEY WOULD RATHER HEAR ME TALK THAN READ. IT DRIVES ME CRAZY, BECAUSE THERE ARE EFFECTS THAT YOU CAN ACHIEVE ON THE PAGE THAT -- FOR ONE THING...
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| 02:09:36 |
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KNOW THAT MARK TWAIN THOUGHT IT WAS HIS GREATEST BOOK, AND I THOUGHT WE SHOULD FOLLOW HIS OPINION MORE THAN ANOTHER PERSON. >> THANK YOU. >> NO, I THINK...
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I TAUGHT IN THE INNER-CITY
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SCHOOLS. I HAD WONDERFUL STUDENTS AND WE ALWAYS DID "THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN," AND, OF COURSE, THERE WERE A LOT OF DIFFERING OPINIONS, AND...
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THROUGH THE 1980'S, AND I NOTICED A CHANGE IN ATTITUDE BACK THEN, -- BACK THEN MY STUDENTS CALLED THEMSELVES BLACK. ONE THING I DID NOTICE, THE STORY...
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ISSUE. TO ME THE MOST POIGNANT MOMENT IS THE MOMENT WHEN JIM IS SITTING
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THERE ON THE RAFT
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TRYING TO -- CRYING TO HIMSELF AND HUCK WANTS TO KNOW WHAT'S BOTHERING HIM AND JIM TALKS ABOUT THE TIME WHEN HE TOLD HIS LITTLE GIRL TO SHUT THE DOOR...
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CAN'T SAY THIS AND SAY THAT. THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS
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NOW, THIS IS OUR HISTORY, THIS IS THE WAY PEOPLE THOUGHT. AND IT'S -- THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH IT. THAT'S THE WAY THAT KIDS TALKED TO SLAVES. WE'RE...
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HISTORY AND DRAGS YOU THROUGH
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IT AND PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT OF THEMSELVES AS GOOD PEOPLE WERE HORRIBLE PEOPLE OR HACTING -- OR ACTING IN HORRIBLE WAYS. I THINK THAT RACISM IS TRICKY....
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MEGAN PATTERSON, THEY PORTRAY BETSY AND TOM SAWYER. TELL ME HOW YOU BECAME TOM SAWYER. >> IN FEBRUARY THE HANNIBAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SENDS OUT A...
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TO BE BECKY SINCE MY BROTHER WAS TOM SAWYER IN 1992, AND I WOULD -- I MENTIONED HOW I WOULD REALLY ENJOY TO REPRESENT HANNIBAL. >> HERE I ALREADY CALLED...
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YEARS OLD. >> WHEN DID YOU START DOING
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THIS? >> WE STARTED DRESSING UP AND GOING AROUND ABOUT JUNE OF 2000, AND OUR REIGN WILL END JULY
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4. >> BEN, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? >> WE'VE BEEN TO NEW YORK WHERE WE SAW WHERE MARK TWAIN STUDIED WHERE HE WROTE "TOM
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SAWYER," AND WE HAVE BEEN TO DISNEY
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WORLD, AND PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, FOR THE TOURNAMENT OF ROSES PARADE, AND RECENTLY WE WENT TO THE FROG JUMPING CONTEST IN
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CALIFORNIA. >>
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THAT MAKES SENSE. ERIC, WHAT IS THE MOST OFTEN QUESTION YOU'RE ASKED WHEN YOU TRAVEL? >> IF I'M HUCK. >> IF YOU'RE HUCK? >> YEAH. >> AND MEGAN, WHAT'S...
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PHONES. NEXT IS SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA. CALLER: CHANKS FOR TAKING MY CALL --
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THANKS FOR TAKING MY CALL AGAIN.
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I HAVE A
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SCIENTIFIC QUESTION WHICH IS MARK
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TWAIN HAS A GREAT
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RESEMBLANCE TO ALBERT INESTEIN, AND HE WOULD
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HAVE LIVED AT THE
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TIME
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OF INESTEIN'S FATHER'S AGE --
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EINSTEIN'S FATHER'S AGE. >> IT IS MOSTLY THE HAIR. HE WAS OVER THERE IN EUROPE. THERE'S -- THERE'S CERTAINLY NO -- I NEVER EVEN HEARD A RUMOR THAT...
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CONNECTICUT, GO AHEAD. CALLER: I WONDERED IF YOU COULD COMMENT ON MARK TWAIN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH MARY FAIRBANKS, AND HE MET HER ON THE QUAKER CITY TOUR,...
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WHO WAS SLIGHTLY OLDER THAN TWAIN, WHO HE RESPECTED
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AS A GUIDE ON HOW TO BECOME A
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BETTER -- A BETTER WRITER, A MORE ACCEPTABLE AND RESPECTABLE WRITER, AND HE LOOKED TO HER FOR ADVICE, AS HE WAS TURNING THE LETTERS INTO A BOOK,...
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WANTED TO SMOOTH OUT SOME OF THE EDGES, SHE WAS AN ADVISER AS HE TRIED TO MAKE THIS TRANSITION FROM UNCOTH WESTERN HUMORIST TO RESPECTABLE WRITER. ...
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THERE. >> INTO HIS LATER YEARS, WHERE WAS HE LIVING? >> UNFORTUNATELY BECAUSE HE LOST SO MUCH MONEY INVESTING IN THE PAGE TYPESETTING MACHINE, HIS FAMILY...
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TO ABANDON THEIR
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WONDERFUL HOUSE IN HARTFORD AND LIVE IN EUROPE WHERE IT WAS
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CHEAPER TO LIVE. THEY WERE LEADING A VERY -- A TRANSIENT LIFESTYLE MOVING FROM HOUSE TO
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HOUSE IN VARIOUS PLACES IN EUROPE
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MANY WHILE HE WAS LIVING IN EUROPE, HE DID SOME OF HIS MOST INTERESTING WRITING OF HIS LATER YEARS, SOME OF HIS DARKEST WRITING, THINGS LIKE "THE...
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TELEGRAPH. HE DIDN'T HAVE FAXES OR EMAIL. BUT HE COULD GET WORDS AROUND. THEY GOT BOOKS OUT PRETTY FAST IN THOSE DAYS CONSIDERING -- YOU KNOW, HE LOVED...
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TO SORT OF PERSONALIZE JUST AS HE DID IN HIS WRITING, TO GET REALLY
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PHYSICAL AND -- YOU KNOW, HE DESCRIBED THIS AMAZING TYPESETTING MACHINE IN -- IN BODILY, SORT OF PHYSICAL TERMS, AS IF IT WAS A PERSON OR ANIMAL. HE...
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| 02:20:56 |
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DROWNED IN THE COURSE OF AN EPILEPTIC SEIZURE IN A BATHTUB.
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IT WAS VERY SAD. BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE UNFAIR TO ATTRIBUTE ALL OF THE DARK WRITING OF THE LATER YEARS TO THE PERSONAL TRAGEDIES, THEY ALSO REFLECTED...
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BROTHER'S DEATH. IT WAS LIKE HE WAS KILLING ALL OF THESE PEOPLE, AND HE APPLIED THAT CONSCIENCE TO SOCIETY TOO. >> PORTLAND, OREGON, HELLO. CALLER: WOULD...
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THAT? >> NO, AND PEOPLE OFTEN SAID THAT HE DID. >> GRANT WAS SICK AT THE TIME? >> GRANT WAS SICK AT THE TIME. WE DON'T KNOW THE DETAILS OF HOW THE BOOK...
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IT. GRANT HAD HELP. HE
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DID WORK ON IT HARD HIMSELF. >> GRANT HAS A DISTINCTIVE
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STYLE, AND HE SHOULD GET
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CREDIT FOR WRITING THAT BOOK WHILE
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DYING. >> THERE IS A SIGN ON THIS STREET, HILL STREET, WHERE MARK TWAIN GREW UP AND
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SANG MEL CLEMENS THAT IS ON A FENCE, AND THE FENCE SAYS THIS IS THE FENCE THAT TOM SAWYER
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PAINTED NOW TOM SAWYER WAS FICTITIOUS, IF WE
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CAN GET A PICTURE OF IT. HERE IT IS. HERE TODAY THE BOARD FENCE WHICH TOM SAWYER -- I CAN'T READ IT FROM HERE. NOW THIS IS FICTION. YOU'VE WRITTEN...
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SIMPLY REFLECTING? AND I THINK THAT CERTAINLY THAT THE HISTORIC DISTRICT IS MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE LOOKING AT THE IDYLLIC INNOCENT IDOL OF CHILDHOOD...
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WEB SITES, ONE BY STEVEN RAILTON, AND ANOTHER BY BARB SWIT, THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE, WINDOWS ON TWAIN'S WORLD. >> YOU CAN GO TO OUR WEB SITE
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AT AMERICANWRITERS.ORG, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO GET A LIST OF THOSE, WE WILL LINK THEM TO YOU. WE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF TEACHER INFORMATION AND WAYS IN WHICH...
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BEEN WITH YOU THIS MORNING AND TO HAVE YOU HERE IN HANNIBAL, MISSOURI, WHERE WE FEEL MARK TWAIN'S CAREER REALLY GOT ITS START. >> THANK YOU. ROY BLOUNT,...
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MORNING WITH NOTHING ELSE BUT THE "MISSOURI
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WALTZ." [HARMONICA
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AND BANJO PLAYS] (music) (music)
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NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.