MENTAL TELEGRAPHY ♦ By Mark Twain ♦ Memoir, Narrative ♦ Full Audiobook

MENTAL TELEGRAPHY ♦ By Mark Twain ♦ Memoir, Narrative ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  MENTAL TELEGRAPHY



Author:  Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)



Genre:  Memoir, Narrative



Language:  English



Read By:  Josh Mitteldorf



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Certain mental telegraphy is an industry which is always silently at work -- oftener than otherwise, perhaps, when we are not suspecting that it is affecting our thought... I imagine that we get most of our thoughts out of somebody else's head, by mental telegraphy -- and not always out of the heads of acquaintances, but, in the majority of cases, out of the heads of strangers; strangers far removed...

- Mark Twain's Autobiography



Hartford, Conn., October 4, 1884.



DEAR SIR, -- I should be very glad to be made a Member of the Society for Psychical Research; for Thought-transference, as you call it, or mental telegraphy as I have been in the habit of calling it, has been a very strong interest with me for the past nine or ten years. I have grown so accustomed to considering that all my powerful impulses come to me from somebody else, that I often feel like a mere amanuensis when I sit down to write a letter under the coercion of a strong impulse; I consider that that other person is supplying the thoughts to me, and that I am merely writing from dictation. And I consider that when that other person does not supply me with the thoughts, he has supplied me with the impulse anyway; I never seem to have any impulses of my own. Still, may be I get even by unconsciously furnishing other people with impulses.



I have reaped an advantage from these years of constant observation. For instance when I am suddenly and strongly moved to write a letter or inquiry, I generally don't write it -- because I know that that other person is at that moment writing to tell me the thing I wanted to know, -- I have moved him or he has moved me, I don't know which, -- but anyway I don't need to write, and so I save my labour. Of course I sometimes act upon my impulse without stopping to think. My cigars come to me from 1,200 miles away. A few days ago, -- September 30th, -- it suddenly,, and very warmly occurred to me that an order made three weeks ago for cigars had as yet, for some unaccountable reason, received no attention. I immediately telegraphed to inquire what the matter was. At least I wrote the telegram and was about to send it down town, when the thought occurred to me, "This isn't necessary, they are doing something about the cigars now -- this impulse has travelled to me 1,200 miles in half a second." S. L. CLEMENS.



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Twain and Howells On Each Other ♦ By Mark Twain and William Dean Howells...

Twain and Howells On Each Other ♦ By Mark Twain and William Dean Howells ♦ Audiobook



Title:  Twain and Howells On Each Other



Authors: Mark Twain and William Dean Howells



Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography, Essays & Short Works



Language: English



Read By:  John Greenman



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Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and William Dean Howells were friends for 44 years. Their personal and professional relationship is considered by many to be one of the most important in American literature. Howells published his famous "My Mark Twain" in the same year Clemens died, 1910. A few years earlier, Clemens wrote this "remembrance" and "appreciation" of the man who stuck with him through the ups and downs of his long literary journey. (John Greenman)



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The Diaries of Adam and Eve ♦ By Mark Twain ♦ (Humorous fiction) ♦ Audio...

The Diaries of Adam and Eve ♦ By Mark Twain ♦ (Humorous fiction) ♦ Audiobook



Title:  The Diaries of Adam and Eve



Author:  Mark TWAIN



Genre: Humorous Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Phil Chenevert



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Mark Twain wrote these two diaries, or rather as he insists, 'translated them from the original manuscripts', late in his writing career. The freshness, wonder and excitement of exploring a new world permeates Eve's thoughts as she takes great joy in her very existence and loves everything about it. To me this is obviously a posthumous love-letter to Twain's wife Olivia Langdon Clemens, or Livy, who died in June 1904, but others may disagree. Adam's diary is different and he comes across as a somewhat surly person who just wants to be alone and think his thoughts. he is also not very bright. How the two finally come together is what makes these stories so wonderful and expresses the love between a husband and wife. They were written as two separate works but fit together so well I have combined them into one here. - Summary by phil chenevert



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