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Mark Twain Journal

Bill Watterson created artwork for the journal.

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Numbers and dates of Mark Twain Journal

Volume 21, Spring, 1983

Volume 21, Fall, 1983

Volume 22, Spring, 1984

Volume 22, Fall, 1985

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"A home without a cat – and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly-revered cat -- may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"

Artwork: Bill Watterson

Lecturing in Australia, Mark Twain struggled manfully to find a rhyme for boomerang; but nothing that made sense rhymed. He had better luck with another scientific name for platypus:

Land of the ornithorhynchus,
Land of the kangaroo,
Old ties of heredity link us...

Unfortunately, "if your rhymes rhyme then there is no sense in it."

Artwork: Bill Watterson

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From Mark Twain
To the Editor of The World:
It is heart-warm and world-embracing Christmas hope aspiration that all of us – the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage – may eventually rest and peace and bliss – except the inventor of the telephone.
Mark Twain
Hartford, Dec. 23

(New York World, December 25, 1890, p.1)

Artwork: Bill Watterson

Illustration from "Tom Sawyer's Gang as Social Ritual: Implications for Modern Social Organization," Mark Twain Journal, Spring, 1983.

Artwork: Bill Watterson
Mark Twain Journal ©1983

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know."
–Life on the Mississippi, Ch. 6

Artwork: Bill Watterson
Mark Twain Journal ©1983

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."

–Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar

Artwork: Bill Watterson

In "A Curious Dream" (1870), Twain satirized the way the citizens of Buffalo had neglected their old North Street graveyard. Tired of having to bail out their graves with their skulls every time it rained, the residents set off with their possessions to find a new home elsewhere.

Twain concluded with a "Note:–The reader is assured that if the cemeteries in his town are kept in good order, this dream is not leveled at his town at all, but is leveled particularly and venomously at the next town."

Artwork: Bill Watterson

"When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life."
–Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

Artwork: Bill Watterson

Mark Twain Journal 1985

Mark Twain Journal

Watterson 1985

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