Факт и вымысел в журналистике Марка Твена

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«Intelligent people can understand, now, that about a hundred dollars a day may be saved in this way, without even taking into consideration the costly job of re-timbering every two or three years, which is rendered unnecessary by it – and by way of driving the proposition into heads like the Unreliable's, which is filled with oysters instead of brains, we will say that by building these walls, you are saved the time and labor of lowering heavy timbers 300 feet into the earth <…>».

87

«The Unreliable of the Union went also – for the purpose of distorting the facts». Twain M. A big thing in Washoe city // Mack E. M. Mark Twain in Nevada. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. P. 224.

88

«Next there are the specific political burlesque in which Mark Twain parodied legislative proceedings of the territorial legislature». Cox J. M. Mark Twain: The fate of humor. Columbia: University of Missouri press, 2002.P.

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[Cries, "Hannah! Hannah!" "Gentlemen, wait a moment!" "I call for the adoption of the report before we have any speaking!"] Twain M. The Bolters in Convention // Mark Twain of the Enterprise / Ed. By H. N. Smith. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1957. P. 113.

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«Mr. Gregory did this with much grace and dignity, albeit he affected to stammer and gasp, and hesitate, and look colicky, and miscall the names, and miscall them again by way of correcting himself, and grab desperately at invisible things in the air – all with a charming pretense of being scared».

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«He touched us very agreeably by speaking of us as "those intelligent reporters who officiated at the late Constitutional Convention." [The word «intelligent» is our own. We had an idea it would make the sentence read better.]». Twain M. The Bolters in Convention …P. 114.

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«It was a dusty, a very dusty, Convention, and as has been previously remarked in America, we are a great people».

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Webb J. Historical Perspective on the New Journalism // A Sourcebook of American Literary Journalism: Representative Writers in an Emerging Genre / Ed. T. B. Connery. New York: Greenwood Press,1992.P. 18.

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Боброва М. Н. Марк Твен. Очерк творчества. М.: Гос. изд. худ. лит., 1962. С. 74.