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Complex Numbers #697145 added May 24, 2010 at 2:23pm
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Never the Twain
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/after-keeping-us-wait...
Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned out to be entirely accurate, one of Mark Twain's dying wishes is at last coming true: an extensive, outspoken and revelatory autobiography which he devoted the last decade of his life to writing is finally going to be published.
The creator of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and some of the most frequently misquoted catchphrases in the English language left behind 5,000 unedited pages of memoirs when he died in 1910, together with handwritten notes saying that he did not want them to hit bookshops for at least a century.
Apparently some of it is already known, but here it'll all be in one place.
I suppose a personal account of his meetings with Nikola Tesla would be too much to ask for... and if Twain ended up bad-mouthing the inventor, my head just might explode from cognitive dissonance. |
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