150 year old cache of Mark Twain stories found

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So I guess reports of the death of these stories have been greatly exaggerated.

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*rimshot*

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Maybe the stories are from the time he was working for the Morning Glory & Johnson County Warwhoop as associate editor.

Squee!!

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Clemens chose wisely…

“It’s really a crisis time for him,” Hirst said. “He’s going to be 30 on 30 November 1865, and for someone not to have chosen a career by that time in this period was quite unusual.”

Twain had been resisting becoming a humorist, according to Hirst, because at the time humor was considered a lower order of writing. He was in debt and drinking heavily, and even wrote to his brother that he was contemplating suicide, saying: “If I do not get out of debt in three months – pistols or poison for one – exit me.”

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Some things never change.

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HAY!! when I headline the next Tyler Perry movie you’ll be whistling a different tune there, buddy!

(Said in the voice of Jim Gaffigan)

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Oh my gods I think I legitimately got the vapours.

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Holy shit! This is epic news!

Woo!

torrent when?

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