Today I begin to “put pen to paper” in the anthropomorphic, picaresque “Taterskin and His Friends” which will be written in “first canine” (similar to first person, but … you know).
I will still be posting a daily recording to YouTuber (a video-sharing site for spuds). It is me reading Mark Twain’s final book, the novella “Extract From Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.”
This (Save dialog from Audacity) might shed some light on it:
By the end of his life, Twain’s/Clemens’s wife and editor Livy Clemens (1845-1904) was no longer around to attempt to dissuade him from publishing it (she thought it was too irreverent). Ironically, it was at first rejected by a possible publisher, though, for being “too damned godly.”
Sometimes you can’t please anybody, even when you’re Mark Twain.
Anyway, it is one of my favorite works by Twain (which means, it is one of my favorite works, period). Here I am reading the first part of chapter 1: