tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post5940465046559673879..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: As long and tedious as it should be useless to me - Mark Twain's anti-fictionAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-4765444433271951612012-10-31T12:21:29.779-05:002012-10-31T12:21:29.779-05:00Kipling was 24, actually. He was a phenomenon.
...Kipling was 24, actually. He was a phenomenon. <br /><br />That tone of reportage - exactly, that is part of what Kipling borrows or adapts from Twain. It serves his tales as well as Twain's nonsense. <br /><br />"Masculine fiction," huh? I guess <i>Tom Sawyer, Detective</i> (1896) was too gooey for the <i>NYT</i> critic. Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-53514453656474318602012-10-31T11:06:38.202-05:002012-10-31T11:06:38.202-05:00You appear, sir, to be implying that there are peo...You appear, sir, to be implying that there are people who plan, draft and revise these internet weblog post things. That's crazy talk.<br /><br />Maybe he never did real reporting, but one thing I like about much Twain is the <i>tone of reportage</i> used. Though maybe the tone of a reporter isn't so different from the tone of a teller of tall tales. I'll have to think about that one.<br /><br />I like the image of Kipling interviewing Twain. Kipling was 34 and Twain was 64. I found an article from the NYT Saturday Review of Books and Art (July 17, 1897) that claims Kipling had replaced Twain as the master of "masculine fiction" because Twain, in his old age, had gone soft and romantic. <br /><br />scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.com