Show MAK TWAIN INSISTS HE IS SERIOUS I 1 ABOUT HIS posthumous BOOK 6 I 1 london july 20 2 mark tuala has i just jurt set el out for a sojourn in sweden mith hla his zilfo and two claugh daught daughtery I 1 e erB r I 1 a and nd alit not lot get back to london till 1111 fall all han ahon ho he mill n III rent a furnished hous P or find apartments apart monta some here mind and otay alay until late lit in thi the winter minor or early in the spring and then at last riburn return to the united at least those are arc his intentions hut but its as ho he in a rather nary talk I 1 had mith fihs ihs he day hc be toichi left 1 I am full of intentions I 1 dont believe ive had an all intention in months that I 1 ve fulfilled why it soon ln l n t hafe are to havo have fin an intention you have anything more than just tile the vaguest gerin of un an idea that maybe do something or other if when the time tm comes you dont happen to do something else you musin 1 be a lilt bit mole moie definite than ihan that and if you grot got as far as ai having it a real intention you are lost mark maik twain often interviewed ile he Is id ahlis a hud haid man to find in the alist place system and are arc I 1 no not L numbered among his sins tind land in the second place after he has talked antillo to a fato ind newspaper min fresno he 1 is 14 4 likely to PAY ay iy aa lie did on this I occasion now see here it won t do to put publish any of that I 1 ought not to bi be let telling J ng about my affairs it quite right jt it look well COVERING UP TUB THE VANITY whereupon I 1 niguel and with for or enough f to aln lit connant to the publication ll li of sonic some of the talk alt although alth oish hoogh alack twain that he dlan n t belleve believe the public mould care headd ir much u h about his cool 1001 intentions lie ile e you see its the vanity tit the 1 thing bi I 1 that bortles won acs ics nil me that everlasting iain thit that eveia avci y son soil of us lias it you can manage to coer it il up somi how lf if you can be deceiving on enough to make it appear that the vanity as I 1 L there buhy go ahead ond and pilot some of the things le been saying babins but dont print all of em cm lie pulled one land hand from under the bedclothes and shook his linger finger impressively th austing ill the home with mill a sharp glance front from two eno of the keenest blue eyes that were ere ever put into tile the head or of man sir air demons Clente rim was mas in bed taking adire a bits now and then from his morning toll loll and getting a sip of coffee berneen hem eon times although it was 11 OLI 0 CIE in the nasel met fling lie he hod ad be been n ha having ving the same sort fort of experience in london that mr air choate hits haa hid had h id and which tell led that distinguished gentleman to explain to tile savage club the other night that in radar to be an a mans need was a stomach st and LIME if any one had told jilin him he could dine out fifty nights night s in and ltv liv he be mould have thought it ft a good joke mark alark tn maln ain lias has been bce n lit in as much demand as mr choate and to catch ut up on olt lost steel sleep he said lie had put lit in tuo houis ln in bed in the file last three nihls nights the suir alsing fact about it and lies hes till aln of in ft lie he said alit Is that I 1 been tired dred if it vote not for the whiteness 0 of his half sit earned on out t front from his bia lead to all bullits of tile the e compass u PASS lie he would not look his him sixty fou four r beirs ears at tile risk of venturing on 0 one n L of if t I 1 to so personal details so 0 o creade drea derl rl by the fa MAUS author it must be r bael ved that it a Is becoming I 1 to a him THAT extraordinary BOOK Na nationally one or of the fi hiitt A t quest bun was waa a UT the remark remarkably abl 0 ll 11 book a ok which air demons clemens Is willlis aar hul I 1 hleb 1 not hot to tot publio died for a ll 11 hundred unac years it evidently worries marries him to think that lie ile ant lie token taken seriously its no use talking avo lie said slapping sapling hta his 10 to lo it oi aft the borl bed othes and ailing the pillow an it ct amia birth there a III 1 biff 1119 soul 8 so fur far is as I 1 can discover who can understand my illy 1111 pule poap my host henl frien ads 14 don dont t the lilea idea I 1 flo bin rin a to think coloni ean 1 my illy family dont quite quit c understand undo iMand me you yell get the th idea el either her nobody could anti and yet I 1 thai b the he one thing I 1 caud to du was is in t talk plainly I 1 dont use any bit MS words mortis I 1 don ti t any ally flowers of and yet I 1 suppose I 1 have read comments about i it 11 in anity still and amr Am oilean pa nn i tart anil and not noi A oila on or of bem cm seemed to know what mitat I awaa ung driving at and ad yeti yet i I 1 have bare mad it a ule to t say may ex exactly I 1 1 what hot I 1 meant to say lay I 1 if liy y to be c clear nil and let all the other gr braces Heter go when hn I 1 say bay I 1 have coined a vacation and am point going to ti spend it in my own anti way may they ret get up oil and say any to ulea me fiat but bullat it a basto asir of time lime it Is to no write rl is a book alint won ural thull oil oh tile soldad iles of hi tie ideal and yet I 1 am in not lending lo 10 work fr for nothing 1 I ant am tie no bettor bc lter than inchody ill in 0 body hody cehe alae ish I 1 bli ill gel m v pay in pla I 1 have a n right toi to J cil aill ci l inv dinv Plea mille in my illy null n n wily i 11 now it Is my illy idea of a good t time 1 me to n I 1 I 1 te it honk book that nobody now living shall over son ne if it k 1 exi exi I pensive to wilie milto n buck that I shall not I 1 I 1 lot buy bay in my illy day 1111 11 ight R lit its illy little copper and it I 1 II 11 want to lu it ft in IL a w way may it I 1 I 1 need ed weary woi ry tile iian ahu w lio might spend 1113 little copper penny oaf me other tt on som a 17 M lilt int to my iny aj elf to what i want I 1 lu ally i levei I 1 myself for im through writing to or publication Arly anyway nay my intention I although it safe to havo have an Inte Elca L EVEN ADAM A NEW I 1 some say not net a new idea idea did it why tint any such thing as aa A a new idem there a man alive ahn ever lind had a new idea noody nobody ever did have a new iden idea adam himself never had one when a 0 aril ic goes to a play and then goes and I 1 rites about it that it ba on a now idea blea nil fill he should moan mean in ial t that a t the ih old idea have a new c coat oat of 0 0 1 5 75 A ej ig Z F a 7 I 1 F 21 I 1 W t d 5 P if 1 1 1 1 ij 24 il l I 1 il I 1 all 1 I r li I 1 IF P TZI M SO L I 1 11 ira E A 1 11 M s 51 tv t all 1 I ei i A f 01 S i I 1 I 1 IV rl wa 04 1 A 7 f I 1 1 1 11 4 it fa F a I 1 g I 1 I 1 09 A va 1 sli I 1 I 1 1 qi Z M max r 4 I 1 71 1 I 1 W I 1 if it as 11 J WA ia al ill A V g 0 n V il I 1 ta I 1 Ns 0 F awl f 11 A 17 W 14 f i P q g Y I 1 47 r r I 1 ie 51 I 1 W N Z i CI NN I 1 A f jil I 1 rw wa 1 19 11 7 jay jaya A il hi I 1 0 0 X 1 t I 1 r N 1 I MI 1 i 1 4 IV I 1 I 1 1 irma 1 mv an IV 0 i 61 i ii I 1 I 1 10 11 I 1 t 1 vi I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 mark hark twain that tha t it reardan rearranged ged the mind 0 of f man capable of producing al a new idea all itcan do Is to ville tik the material matei iAl already at hand ond and work it over into it a little different form we cant even boss bons the job we cant tell our minds what to lo do do and what ant to in do all it we ile can do 15 I 1 just to stand ai 0 und and admire the corkings nor M kings of 0 our t 1 1 r i mammoth n ai n n io th 1 intellect ante bioc ts and think how r model n 0 1 l e i abely t 1 y s smart i a c a are e afif K talleyrand what I 1 am going to t a try ry to tie do its about time it was NN done over again why an idea Is brand new I 1 if r we rn merely K s see 1 it t yesterday e s d ay lee noirl and L n all th that r make n e hac e e endurable ir a c ls Is that all tile the old oi things thing become now about once lit in so ao often put but my book hos cioe no r sen bince whatever to tal oviand or to any other book but the Is 14 something that I 1 cant get any one to understand we all think ile e are arc sm shimming imming out on the ocean while as a matter mailer of fact ice c are arc each of us paddling around in our 0 oun n little mud moot puddle if you try to get a man out 1 ol 01 I his pil vate mud puddle ho Is I 1 ost no 0 o man can sulm in an other mins mans mud anu d puddle so when I 1 have a plan that j air ferent from other people OF 0 O a plans I 1 they cant u pis tand lre alaon hn bioti raid it a and n I 1 he have to s sulm am ai around r n alone in my own puddle e WHAT WHA tirs ITS ABOUT 1 iloween Ilo weer r ill tell tell you 1 what let it is 13 I 1 1 want ant to do tile inference difference between what 1 I ant am willing and the aidin ary biography 14 1 4 as marked as between an cad inary flat photograph and one of 0 those m hat d s e call em cm cl cinematograph n amato pictures biography Is a patch mork of elal photographs each of the them king the prejudiced lew orsome of some ra aar nicular obier er perhaps one of the photographs would be the re co 1 sections of the lie heros mother another 0 t her the observations of a man mail who aho hated itam another the stories told of him III b tom and dick and 11 llory airy lidl ajl of them by some sott rolt of prejudice along comes tho the biographer to patch all of of these there prejudiced views to 9 ther and to lo he too la Is prejudiced file rh cinca picture on the other hand shoo lothe man co complete at p I 1 c t Q nil all around and in action I 1 hut but you oil cant show all sides of it a man without prejudice while he Is fg living iving or m bile him friends or fur child children tell aio ILI 0 living it 11 lie it in a friend ou ell are in n alre r 1 ln e d t to 0 paint ln t h him 1 i n up tip LL a 1 itt 1 0 whitewash cit i a h h him i i a t ll 11 little tt i e if he 1 la s a an n enemy C in Y you ric inclined to put a little black alf 1 aut 0 on n him if you know a stoby to about h n t hi him ni that one whole side of ilia character but that would hurt ill the e feelings of hl you will nill not lint 1 e biblo t b ic to e colnel 0 ann el y you iu i atel elt f t lo 10 0 u use e chiti it b but ul i if f it 1 t g 0 iii g t to 0 b be e r publish ab ll 11 cil for 10 I 1 c cars at I 1 it I 1 rafn be told without offe offense offence nac to yourself jr now im bilting on thin book at odd times ind and I 1 have boon been at it for 0 C J all I 1 ba jupa as if I 1 wore mere iab if 7 about b I 1 people ollie I 1 lial had knonk kr to fit till smears ears ao and n anif ns if they still ami their chil children dien co abut beio v in bin I 1 led I 1 im rn it biting as much as aad atille as if time hal had doun dofan ill I 1 1 mv prejudices na as ht jf id g got t far enough 1 ough lav from my illy subject 0 to o s sec cc it in tile per yes 1 0 1 ain IF mining 85 it I 1 mete fie it H kip ill vin van winkle and 1 I in ir if one me things I 1 an 18 haling d had leally happened HW yanis RZ T HIND NI I 1 ME SATAN if a 0 publisher should come along unit and free tile mp tin in hum burn I 1 should pay ay iy get clet thee beail ita me m satan wily why that bould M spoil tile the abole M gnp ti ling I 1 alit unhampered now fill but its is pain coin im IH he job alen of publishing that honk brink in time for any on ant now ieng to lead got into my thoughts any one ran moo that ih U I 1 coul dilt RO go allaead no ahad I 1 had total tod out im nl lot gnang to tf urite alle autobiography phy tile ali nuin ha 1148 let to lie ile born ho he could ailie ito the truth a about b out hin himself 3 if aut hy I 1 Is always lul lout lio true kit its fabits aarts farts may hf be its ils interpretation of them must be lothen nith elih A grent greni deal or of allow in tile HIP hin graphics I 1 am writing many persons are ube w lio anre rc not camons tod but mho samp orme fifty day let no mf hee 1 I if I 1 r rant an t met maike ft kind of if parallel alla that mill K hm natt h m one 0 alile i de of my idel osbur there nele afi a phooma ker uh who ave in ifor fn an nn lit in I 1 time liale kuppr hc that allne maker hari had neither calek n nor child had con judco that li noulia entertain ahlm bi M pelf felt av setting own lown evely night for corf HH null ni n stiff and not lint fr for anybody else ele to read hla his tr if it pon nho M ho lain imi hl bi sho pho mail mad ft a ripcord of the lio things iliev till did und and ahat seemed to in him or of the in ile h airl lie ile would mould have in ill lom file pid llor und and III ill luchi 1 a ant and I 1 tip flip indi hafk biffl ciali fiina ill inight ul HO hr ha 0 asi 01 nan n all cl hak mho ho lived in the too town ja and 11 he mai as 1 sali to have ram MITT sort nort of in london but who ant a a t cc ranni cona ott as anything extraordinary bv fa tov who hit had alair albai i bi him m I 1 jf f he were IL a A wise I 1 or it a tori kno 1 i lie ho he had ills is ba book bould probably that thai nn indah dAh il ihl this shakespeare C occupied an un amount of n sallee mare in it not flat bea twain it e be was as aa important an all some or 1 the i 11 hit bur because fiat 1 he say la thing and 0 to 10 va em do Is S chions I 1 filar seemed worth pulling down anybody body else who came came into j shop n ih ul I 1 WORTH itar IT WEI WEIGHT I 1 an alt m MONDS I 1 it that shote shoemakers makers back had ato F put away anny in a sale afe twenty five years rears it have i IF come pretty valuable anle in airty asi I 1 it mould have bee mo yar 1 int hundred years 1 it 11 would uld have bi h worth lu its weight in il lamond I 1 just think if th ahr mean pt mort in r significant man I 1 in all the th toun lonn t Shake fla day mere to malk auto I 1 11 tile the streets of 0 london ahll 1 lot litif 0 Ms his memory as arf fresh as aa it Shain Pearis I 1 had p alsed him on the comer the night ti 0 how haw precincts pr clui every word ahna he jua I 1 to say mould lie fee after living four our or 11 five vie earn rania braul and paying up the debts of a bank I 1 apt publishing firm hat had final boned lowed up un ills his fortune faulls faull n I 1 his ber beginning inning life anew after his be hill I 1 reached hla his three eore years pars mark tn ain la its back on hla his feet a gain again 1 and 11 s I 1 going colne over to tile the united states to ti M t 1 tic lie doun next spring the talks folk ant r looking for a 0 home that we can afford I 1 to live ive in he bald arn and they cant 1 lne one until unit 1 they no ne ile rant cant C i back bebau be ciuc C you cant een live 1 i ill the C street in nw new york its too or pensive pens ivet I 1 mystery BY OF THE CANONS HAT the clemens cl mena conscience u waa much oil at the file time of the by ino ih hat hal or 0 canon wilberforce tin the A merican american humorist and the lamon english tit d ine han been fellow guests at ai a dinner into flights biford ael aal canon was call called cod ar CA eaily I 1 ay by its ills parliamentary duties set when hen apt laik k twan twain earn to go later ozi on he found that big hl 1 hat fiat was waa gone 1 I 1 I 1 tiled every hat in eight he said sat nl at al hast found one that fitted every idiosyncrasy or of my cranium it la is strange and mysterious circumstance that hat it turned out to hi he the th ty 0 E carion atler ilLEt cr I 1 had halit li IL a day I 1 was obliged to write hastily hainly to the canon and explain that my ram fam lly ily had become seriously alarmed al armel ty by my condition ever since nearing the CA canons hat I 1 hall hail been unable to take taka property properly that did not belong to not mf had found it impossible to stretch 4 statement beyond the boun bounds is of 0 truth and load ad stio n such a complete chann chang in mo morals r ais that the advisability of and nd I 1 I 1 ink fla f for or a doctor for or me aas as 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