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Title: Those Extraordinary Twins

Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Release Date: April, 2002 [Etext #3185]
Last Updated: February 20, 2010

Language: English

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THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS

by Mark Twain

Contents

CHAPTER I. THE TWINS AS THEY REALLY WERE
CHAPTER II. MA COOPER GETS ALL MIXED UP
CHAPTER III. ANGELO IS BLUE
CHAPTER IV. SUPERNATURAL CHRONOMETRY
CHAPTER V. GUILT AND INNOCENCE FINELY BLENT
CHAPTER VI. THE AMAZING DUEL
CHAPTER VII. LUIGI DEFIES GALEN
CHAPTER VIII. BAPTISM OF THE BETTER HALF
CHAPTER IX. THE DRINKLESS DRUNK
CHAPTER X. SO THEY HANGED LUIGI
FINAL REMARKS.

A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time
of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He
has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has
some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality. He
knows these people, he knows the selected locality, and he trusts
that he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting
results. So he goes to work. To write a novel? No--that is a thought
which comes later; in the beginning he is only proposing to tell a
little tale; a very little tale; a six-page tale. But as it is a tale
which he is not acquainted with, and can only find out what it is by
listening as it goes along telling itself, it is more than apt to go
on and on and on till it spreads itself into a book. I know about this,
because it has happened to me so many times.

And I have noticed another thing: that as the short tale grows into a
long tale, the original intention (or motif) is apt to get abolished and
find itself superseded by a quite different one. It was so in the
case of a magazine sketch which I once started to write--a funny and
fantastic sketch about a prince and a pauper; it presently assumed a
grave cast of its own accord, and