Legal Commentary

By Evan Schaeffer

MARK TWAIN, RIP . . . Maud Newton reminds us today of "a hundred years without Mark Twain"--

My beloved Mark Twain, who died a hundred years ago today, entered the world and left with Halley?s Comet. His essays have a permanent place on my bedside table; I read them whenever my own writing stalls. Those perfect verbs, those unexpected, hilarious, and accurate nouns, that brilliant sense of the absurd and limitless ability to evoke it?

I concur. I even own a complete set of Twain's works, which takes up an entire shelf in my living room. Take a minute to read Newton's full post.

Related posts: I've mentioned Twain a number of times on this weblog. Some of these past posts--

• "Weekly Report #23: Keep Your Mouth Shut, Fool" (reporting on a drive in 2004 to a town near Hannibal, Missouri)

• "Favorite Things: Drinking, Smoking & Screwing" (self-explanatory?)

• "Somewhat Famous Law Clerks in History #1" (a anecdote about Twain's brother Orion)

Full post as published by Notes from the (Legal) Underground on April 21, 2010 (boomark / email).