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From: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
Date: 20060901
Author:Middlekauff, Robert L

OUT ON THE LECTURE CIRCUIT, Mark Twain did not want to be introduced by anyone. His aversion to introductions of himself by others seems to have begun one evening when he was presented to a large audience in the following manner: His host, the presiding officer, said: "I don't know anything about this man except two things, one is, he has never been in the penitentiary, and the other is, I don't know the reason why."2

My subject today is not the sources of Mark Twain's humor, though I should at least point out that he is usually placed in the tradition of Southwestern humor, the humor of the ...

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