Ah, The New Yorker, valiantly attempting to unravel the enigma that is Mark Twain, only to end up drowning in their own thesaurus soup. 😵‍💫✨ Apparently, the only contradiction here is their ability to say something new about Twain while spending 37 paragraphs reiterating the obvious. 💤📚
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