tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455126179375366490.post5674280446571366243..comments2023-12-20T11:32:15.997-05:00Comments on Billevesées: Mark Twain in BedWilliam V. Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18120331095634473021noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455126179375366490.post-80649124353597005362010-05-30T07:05:41.757-04:002010-05-30T07:05:41.757-04:00Well, poo. Once again a writer is undone by the di...Well, poo. Once again a writer is undone by the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. How very irritating to be the writer in question.<br /><br />I expect to cling tenaciously nevertheless to my assertion that Twain would have known what to do with a vibrating sex toy, had he ever encountered one. And so I shall let the article stand more or less as I wrote it.William V. Madisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18120331095634473021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455126179375366490.post-23582746901361917332010-05-29T21:16:58.023-04:002010-05-29T21:16:58.023-04:00There was no "vibrating sex toy." The co...There was no "vibrating sex toy." The confusion is from the word "vibrator" which referred to a machine of an entirely different nature.<br /><br />See: https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1005&L=twain-l&D=1&T=0&O=D&P=4795<br /><br />Also: http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=7932D. Cloyce Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12017407200533790119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455126179375366490.post-12100188510117815772010-05-29T10:12:32.376-04:002010-05-29T10:12:32.376-04:00I actually researched and "impersonated"...I actually researched and "impersonated" Twain/Clemens for a school project called Night of the Notables. Parents would walk around to the different students (who were clad in appropriate costumes) and ask questions to try to figure out who they were impersonating. I'm glad no one asked about his vibrating sex toy gift, because the biographies in my school library conveniently left those kinds of details out! <br /><br />I am somewhat interested in what he has to say about himself, but ultimately I don't think it will hold a candle to the kinds of scandals to which we have grown accustomed.Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08209444621702072458noreply@blogger.com