an autobiography like that before--he proudly calls it "a complete and purposed jumble"--and he knew it. At the end of his writing life, Twain, the great self-reinventor, invented one more brand-new form: something we know today as stream-of-consciousness writing, familiar throughout the century since, in the work of James Joyce, Bob Dylan, and many in between.Amazingly, the Autobiography of Mark Twain, completed and arranged as he intended it, has never been published.
from John Timpane: The Philadelphia Inquirer: Twain's life, as he told it
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In a rare moment of global rejoicing over a hazardous plight ending happily--with international cooperation, glad shouts from massed crowds in the night, the tears of happy spouses and children as the miners emerge--the Internet has been not only the bearer of glad images and texts, but also a warm, embracing, unifying force.
from John Timpane: The Philadelphia Inquirer: World watches mine rescue on Web
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