"With Twain it seems more the case that we go on suspecting he hides some meaning, some message that we could probably use, behind the bushy eyebrows and mustache, but are less and less able to name or remember. He doesn’t quite haunt us." —John Jeremiah Sullivan for Harper's

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Twain Dreams, by John Jeremiah Sullivan

The enigma of Samuel Clemens

Harper's Magazine