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Show Twain's Spider Web Mark Twain always knew all the answers. Once when he was the editor of a newspaper, he received a letter from one of his subscribers subscrib-ers who found a spider in his paper. pa-per. This reader was worried about the incident and wrote to Mark Twain to ask whether it was a sign of good luck or bad. Here is his answer, as published in Printed Word, house magazine of the Von Hoffmann Press, St. Louis. "Dear Subscriber: 1 "Finding a spider in your paper was neither good luck nor bad luck for you. The spider was merely mere-ly looking over the paper to see which merchant is not advertising so that he can go to that store, spin his web across the door, and liveoa life of undisturbed peace ever afterwards." Browsing Among Words: With too many of us, reading is apt to be "the habit of mildly enjoying and immediately forgetting all the disconnected series of ideas." The politician is one "who has majored in alibiology." |