by admin | May 9, 2025 | The Apocryphal Twain
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on December 25, 2022 The chaperoned first date of Samuel Clemens, the man better known as Mark Twain, and Elmira native, Olivia Langdon, took place on New Years Eve, 1867 in New York City. They went to see Charles Dickens read...
by admin | May 9, 2025 | The Apocryphal Twain
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on December 7, 2020 There is perhaps no greater testament to Twain’s lasting reputation than the habitual misattribution of miscellaneous wit and wisdom to his name. The circulation of such apocryphal aphorisms was common enough in...
by admin | May 8, 2025 | The Apocryphal Twain
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on December 28, 2016 There is perhaps no greater testament to Twain’s lasting reputation than the habitual misattribution of miscellaneous wit and wisdom to his name. The circulation of such apocryphal aphorisms was common enough in...
by admin | May 8, 2025 | The Apocryphal Twain
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on May 16, 2018 Mark Twain is frequently treated as a precursor to the New Journalists who rose to prominence in midcentury America, writers like Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, who died yesterday. Like...
by admin | May 8, 2025 | The Apocryphal Twain
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on October 6, 2016 Adam McKay’s Oscar-winning film The Big Short opens with the above epigraph. Seems appropriate enough, for a cautionary tale about financial bubbles inflated by mass delusion. The film, like the Michael Lewis book...