The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119   Message #961614
Posted By: Jim Dixon
29-May-03 - 10:15 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: I'm My Own Grandpa (D Latham/M Jaffe)
Subject: RE: I'm My Own Grandpa
I strongly doubt that the quote that Joe posted (in the box above) is authentic. It doesn't sound like Mark Twain's style to me. It isn't particularly funny. Even when he wasn't writing for publication, Mark Twain was funnier than that. For example, while searching Twain's works for the word "grandfather" I found this (at Mark Twain's Letters, Complete, Arranged with Comment by Albert Bigelow Paine):If the quote is authentic, it ought to be possible to find it in one of the works listed at the Online Books Page but it would take a lot of patience. You have to search one book at a time. Many, but not all of his works are searchable here.