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AMERICAN HUMORIST INSPIRES PROFESSOR CHOWAN TEACHER WAS IN HIS ELEMENT AT MARK TWAIN GATHERING.(LOCAL)

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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 20011015
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Byline: FRANK ROBERTS THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT\

MURFREESBORO -- MURFREESBORO - The Twainians had a lot to talk about. There was the ``Physical Mark Twain,'' ``Mark Twain Cures the Doctors,'' ``Mark Twain and the Nation,'' ``Wandering Mark Twain.''

Then there was ``Curiouser and Curiouser: Mark Twain's Arousal of Curiosity in a Curiosity Called `A Curious Experience' '' - a discussion of one of the author's short stories.

That talk was given by John H. Davis, a 58-year-old professor of English who teaches American literature at Chowan College.

He joined other men and ...

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