![]() ![]() ![]() Shortly after Twain’s death four years later, The New York Times revealed him as the dialogue’s author. “Why did they not speak out? Because they dreaded ( and could not bear) the disapproval of the people around them….The same reason has restrained me, I think.” “Every thought in has been thought (and accepted as unassailable truth) by millions upon millions of men-and concealed, kept private,” he wrote in its introduction. ![]() That same year, Twain published 250 anonymous copies of “ What Is Man?,” a controversial (for its time), philosophical dialogue arguing that man is a machine. But I got them out of my system, where they have been festering for years-& that was the main thing. In June 1906, Mark Twain wrote in a letter to his friend William Dean Howells, “I have been dictating some fearful things, for 4 successive mornings-for no eye but yours to see until I have been dead a century-if then. ![]()
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