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Tag: Quarantine

Life, In Purgatory (A Twainiac Quarantine Diary)

Life, In Purgatory (A Twainiac Quarantine Diary)

Posted on April 13, 2020April 15, 2020 by Matt Seybold

Our resident scholar discusses the resonance of Mark Twain’s “Was it Heaven? Or Hell?” during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Posted in Twainiac Quarantine DiaryTagged Clara Clemens, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Jean Clemens, John Kenneth Galbraith, Katy Leary, Livy Clemens, Mark Twain, Quarantine, Sam Clemens, Social Distancing, Was It Heaven? Or Hell?, William Dean Howells, York Harbor5 Comments on Life, In Purgatory (A Twainiac Quarantine Diary)
Life, In Arbitrage (A Twainiac Quarantine Diary)

Life, In Arbitrage (A Twainiac Quarantine Diary)

Posted on March 30, 2020April 2, 2020 by Matt Seybold

Our resident scholar has spent his first week in self-quarantine thinking about Mark Twain, coronavirus, and the Civil War.

Posted in Twainiac Quarantine DiaryTagged Alonzo Child, Civil War, Coronavirus, Death, Mark Twain, Mortality Rate, Quarantine1 Comment on Life, In Arbitrage (A Twainiac Quarantine Diary)
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