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If Mark Twain were alive today, he would totally be a blogger.
Twain went everywhere and wrote on whatever interested him: scenery, climate, politics, social conditions, Polynesian legends, missionaries, business, and history ~ and that’s just for starters.
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Twain’s Hawai‘i experiences gave him material for a series of travel essays. He wasn’t one for dry guidebook facts. He was a wised-up observer disguised as a wide-eyed innocent.
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Each weekday on WordPress.com , they select about ten new blog posts for the Freshly Pressed section of the homepage. These blogs are the Best of the Best –they entertain, enlighten, and inspire the rest of us. If Mark Twain had a blog, he’d be Freshly Pressed. As they say, it’s all about the content.
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And there’s plenty of it in the Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, a series of three volumes edited by Harriet Elinor Smith and the editors of the Mark Twain Project. The publisher created an eye-catching Web site, thisismarktwain.com, complete with audio, black-and-white photos and a timeline of Twain’s life. (Two more 600-page volumes are planned.)
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Mark Twain gives us a window into the Hawaii of years ago. He left after four months and a day, never to return. But that crusty irascible guy with the perpetual scowl continued to travel and write about all the places he found Happiness.
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Happiness Song #8 Courtesy of Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters
Click the link for a Blast from the Past.
http://www.casttv.com/embed/rhuj2fs
Toni
Toni,
I’ve been listening to lots of interviews with the editors of Mark Twain’s Autobiography. I want to read it, but am hoping I won’t have to. The editors read lots of excerpts aloud and I want to hear Hal Holbrook read all three volumes. I’m thinking that this is how Twain wanted his life shared. Why? Because it vibrates with his voice. He dictated the text. Down on the page is himself, and when I say “larger than life” I mean it. I could picture him pausing, stroking his vest, pulling on a mustache, crinkling an eye, heck, winking the voice was that strong. I was INSPIRED listening to the editors reading excerpts. I thought to myself, “this is what writing with voice means.”
Should we start a Please Take the Gig, Hall campaign?
Patty
Absolutely…Hal Holbrook must be thinking the same thing!
Toni
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