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Mark Twain

How to Tell a Story and Other Essays

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  • Soliloquios Literariosцитує4 роки тому
    To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct. Another feature is the slurring of the point. A third is the dropping of a studied remark apparently without knowing it, as if one were thinking aloud. The fourth and last is the pause
  • Soliloquios Literariosцитує4 роки тому
    There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind—the humorous. I will talk mainly about that one. The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter.
  • Tatiana Chabaniukцитує4 роки тому
    The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it

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