Факт и вымысел в журналистике Марка Твена

95

«He began to use the pseudonym "Mark Twain" for personal and humorous journalism, although routine news items still bore the byline Samuel L. Clemens». Nelson J. Mark Twain // A Sourcebook of American Literary Journalism: Representative Writers in an Emerging Genre / Ed. T. B. Connery. Greenwood Press: New York, 1992. P. 43.

96

«We engaged a good many young ladies last Tuesday to go with us, thinking that out of the lot we should certainly be able to secure one, at the appointed time, but they all seemed to have got a little angry about something—nobody knows what, for the ways of women are past finding out».

Twain M. Sanitary Ball / The Works of Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1 1851–1864. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1979. P. 185.

97

«The queenly Mrs. L. R. was attractively attired in her new and beautiful false teeth, and the bon jour effect they naturally produced was heightened by her enchanting and well sustained smile». Twain M. The Pioneer’s Ball / The Works of Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol.

2 1864–1865. Berkley: Univ. of California Press, 1981. P. 369.

98

«Everybody knows she is old; everybody knows she is repaired (you might almost say built) with artificial bones and hair and muscles and things, from the ground up – put together scrap by scrap – and everybody knows, also, that all one would have to do would be to pull out her key-pin and she would go to pieces like a Chinese puzzle». Ibid.

99

«Mr. Fisher offered an amendment, to read "the House of Representatives and Council concurring." [Mr. Fisher got his notion from – well – say inspiration, for instance. – REPORTER.]». Twain M Legislative proceedings // Mark Twain of the Enterprise / Ed. By H. N. Smith. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1957.P. 139.

100

«The parliamentary skirmishing still goes on, with unabated intelligence. This Aggregation of Wisdom can frame a concurrent resolution, but we must have time we must have a reasonable length of time to do it in».

Ibid.

101

«He was in fact a prominent member of a burlesque Third House of the legislature <…>». Cox J. M. Mark Twain: The fate of humor.Columbia: University of Missouri press, 2002. P. 15.

102

«After the first quarter of an hour I ceased to whisper and became audible». Twain M. Legislative proceedings // Mark Twain of the Enterprise / Ed. By H. N. Smith. Berkley: Univ.