From: "John F. Winston" 
Subject: Mark Twain On The Internet.
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 09:31:12 -0800 (PST)

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Subject: Mark Twain On The Internet.

  It seems that wherever I go Mark Twain seem to appear.

1.  On the TV show Star Trek.  It seems that the people on this show
went back in time and had a show with Mr. Twain.

2.  Jackass Hill.  While going from Sonora to Angels Camp there is a
turn off and an old cabin where the authors Mark Twain and B. Harte
once got together to write some of their stories.

3.  Angels Camp is what the book or story The Jumping Frogs Of
Calavaras County was written about and even to this day thousand of
people come each year at a certain time to see whose frog can jump the
greater distance.

4. Twain-Harte is a small town near my house where the lady who sold
the land to a developer loved to read the stories of Mark Twain and B.
Harte so they named the town after both of the writers.

5.  Mono Lake is an ancient lake west of where I live that is the
nesting grounds of many sea gulls.  They have a beautiful information
center there that tells all about the lake and guess who they quote as
on his opinion about the lake?  You guessed it, Mark Twain. They love
him and I love him too.

   Now to tell you the latest about Mark Twain and how to find him on
the Internet.

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...................................................................

                      MARK TWAIN WRITES FROM
                          BEYOND GRAVE

                 Internet expert intercepts e-mail

  Although he's been dead for 85 years, one of America's best-loved
writers is penning a new novel, according to a literary expert and
internet "surfer."

  Mark Twain, author of Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of
Hucklebery Finn, has contacted literary agents and publishing
companies by fax and e-mail on the Internet, offering his latest
novel, The Adventures of Cueball, the Guardian Angel.

  Twain, whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, says he's not
the least bit dead" and has been writing in the spirit world since
1910.

                            Contacts Twain

  Ironically, Twain once complained that an erroneous newspaper
announcement of his death was "greatly exaggerated."

  Manfred Johnson, a retired professor of literature living in
California claims he accidently contacted Twain while exploring
various "sites" on the Internet three months ago.

  "I kept getting the line, "Have all you idiots gone deef?" on my
computer screen when I tried to download biographical data on Clemens"
explains Johnson.

  He decided to answer the query and was astonished when the sender
announced that he was Mark Twain and that he was e-mailing from "some
gol' danged place I think might be heaven."

                             Ain't in h---

  Twain, hailed as a "cynical humorist" and agnostic while alive, was
apparently amused because "my backside ain't frying in h---,"
according to Johnson.

  The author downloaded an autographed picture of himself to prove his
identity.

  "It certainly sounds and looks like Twain, even to the ungrammatical
syntax." Johnson says.  Twain was a master of the dialect and
unschooled grammar of everyday life during the late 19th century,
which helped make his stories popular with the common people of that
period.

  For instance, in an early version of Huckleberry Finn, he opened
with "You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name
of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but than ain't no matter," Johnson
explains.

  Twain says cyberspace reaches into the world beyond and is a link
between the living and dead, adding: "So it ain't no big deal that I
kin talk to you."

  His new book is about "a bratty angel who ain't doing so hot because
he don't listen too good."

                       Net Address

  Johnson has tried to sell the book and Twain says his own efforts to
contact publishers by fax and e-mail have been disappointing.

  You can contact Twain on the Internet at the e-mail address:
"http:///@finn.clemens/undead.limbo."

  "But don't be too surprised if he doen't always answer,"  cautions
Johnson.

JW  Well now I don't know about all of this.  The first thing you know
someone will be trying to tell us that they got a phone call from a
person who is dead.

  My favorite saying of Twain is, The worst winter I ever spent was
San Francisco in the summer time.

Source Of Information:  Oct 31, 1995 - SUN - page 25.

John Winston.  johnfwin@mlode.com



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