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" With the pen in one's hand, narrative is a difficult art; narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands, its course changed by every bowlder it comes across and by every grass-clad gravelly spur that projects... "
Altered Egos: Authority in American Autobiography - Page 96
by G. Thomas Couser - 1989 - 304 pages
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Mark Twain's Autobiography, Volume 1

Mark Twain - 1924 - 394 pages
...no law. Nothing to do but make the trip ; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made. With a pen in the hand the narrative stream is a canal...That canal stream is always reflecting; it is its naturc, it can't help it. Its slick shiny surface is interested in everything it passes along the banks...
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Mark Twain's Autobiography, Volume 1

Mark Twain - 1924 - 398 pages
...flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands, its course changed by every bowlder it comes across and by every grass-clad gravelly spur that projects into its path; its surface broken, but its course not stayed by rocks and gravel on the bottom in the shoal places;...
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The Nineteenth-century American Short Story

A. Robert Lee - 1986 - 216 pages
...flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands, its course changed by every bowlder it comes across and by every grass-clad gravelly spur that projects into its path; its surface broken, but its course not stayed by rocks and gravel on the bottom in the shoal places;...
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The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

Mark Twain - 2005 - 850 pages
...no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made. With a pen in the hand the narrative stream is a canal;...stream is always reflecting; it is its nature, it can 't help it. Its slick shiny surface is interested in everything it passes along the banks — cows,...
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Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William ...

Barbara Ladd - 1997 - 228 pages
...as flows the brook down through the hills and leafy woodlands, its course changed by every bowlder it comes across and by every grass-clad gravelly spur that projects into its path; its surface broken, but its course not stayed by rocks and gravel on the bottom in the shoal places;...
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