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MT at Play › |
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The activities and enthusiasms that occupied Mark Twain’s leisure hours inevitably found their way into his "bread-and-butter" hours, influencing both his literary and his business projects. The examples below illustrate how permeable the border was between his work and his play. As he remarked, "work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions." |
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Playing with Names [from an 1884 notebook] |
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Punchlines [from an 1879 notebook] |
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Making Maxims [manuscript pages, various dates] |
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Lecture Notes [illustrated notes, 1874] |
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1601 [pamphlet, 1882] |
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Is He Dead? [revised playscript, 1898] |
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"Conversations with Satan" [manuscript, 1897-98] |
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"Taming the Bicycle" [revised typescript, 1884] |
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A "Skeleton Novelette" [manuscript, 1893] |
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"Lawn Whist" [manuscript, 1905] |