| aDaM gOPNik’S aRticLe on the Mark Twain industry comments on Twain’s expertise as a steamboat pilot. To us, it’s a metaphor for work and life: "the joy in accomplishment can still be sensed, in memory, in every sentence of Life on the Mississippi. Twain was happier than he ever would be again—vigilantly absorbed in a visibly meaningful task, doing something that mattered, that everyone can see mattered." |
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