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Variations on Many Themes |
| Playing with Names [from an 1884 notebook] |
![Playing with Names [from an 1884 notebook]](../images/item_playingnames.jpg "Playing with Names [from an 1884 notebook]") Clemens always carried with him a small notebook in which he recorded matters great and trivial—business notes, addresses, personal errands, literary ideas. In the spring of 1884, momentarily toying with the notion of a physician trying to write a play, he filled seven pages of his notebook with a list of potential characters, including "Rectum Jones" and "Scrofula St. Augustine." |