Just a little before my time, I'm afraid. :P
That reminds me of something, though: several years back, I was working my way through a lot of Rudyard Kipling's novels and stories, and I kept getting this Twain vibe, especially in things like Stalky and Company and Soldiers Three. Turns out that Kipling was a big fan, as Innocents Abroad and other of Twain's earlier titles were published during the time Kipling was growing up. As described in Kipling's From Sea to Sea, years later, he was traveling from India to England the long way around (heading east instead of west) and actually went to Elmira, New York and looked up Samuel Clemens at home.
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Methinks Ted Sturgeon was too kind.
'Yes, but I think some people should be offended.'
-- John Cleese (on whether he thought some might be offended by Monty Python)
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