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             A Comment on "Mark Twain A Spiritual Tragedy"
             Current Literature Nov. 1912
             The first line of this article states that "That supreme longing of the soul of a man–the
             wish to be understood–made one great tragedy of the career of Samuel L. Clemens." The article
             goes on to say the he would write to teach men about the deeper meaning of life but that these
             men could never understand it. If success were measured by how many people understand a
             piece of writing than all writers who be quite unsuccessful. The success of a writer is measured ,
             in my opinion, by how deeply it has impacted the few people who have understood it.
             The reason books like those of Mark Twain were successful and weren't successful is
             because of the great impact they had one people. Sometimes his book would enrage people so
             much that they felt they had to ban them. Other time Mark Twain became a kind of bible to its
             If Mark Twain was in fact "haunted by a sense of great failure" like the article states I do
             not known why. Mark Twain is one of the most known writers of all times. I think he was the
             kind of man who knew that any press was good press.
             I'm sure that there are people out their who understood Twain's message and it is for
             The article also mentions that "anyone who has ever met him knew it [that he was
             troubled]". But perhaps the only reason Twain was ever troubled was because of articles like
             these. Twain has no ground on which to be troubled by his literary career. Perhaps again he was
             troubled because of personal comfits in which case the article should not have been published in
             It's depressing to hear about oneself in such an awkward way as this. When one is put on
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