Факт и вымысел в журналистике Марка Твена

of California press, 1957. P. 146.

103

«I see you want the ayes and noes on all important measures. Long ago I got a batch of roll-calls and prepared to post the people concerning the final action of this body upon the various bills presented. But I got tired of it. I found the House too unanimous; they always voted aye, and I discovered that the list of noes was a use less incumbrance to the roll-call». Ibid. P. 154.

104

Berkove L. I. Virginia City Territorial Enterprise // The Mark Twain encyclopedia / Ed.

105

«When a bill is on its final passage, and a member hears his name called, he rouses up and asks what's going on? The Speaker says, by way of information, "Third reading of a bill, sir." The member says, "Oh! – well, I vote aye," and becomes torpid again at once». Twain M.Legislative proceedings // Mark Twain of the Enterprise / Ed.

106

«<…> Before I could catch his drift, he fell a victim to his old regular "parliamentary usage" dysentery, – passed his brains, and became a smiling, sociable, driveling lunatic». Ibid.

107

«I do not consider myself responsible for mistakes made when the House is full of beautiful women, who are: writing tender notes to me all the time and expecting me to answer them». Ibid.

108

«While I was absent a moment, yesterday, on important business, taking a drink, the House, with its accustomed engaging unanimity, knocked one of my pet bills higher than a kite, without a dissenting voice».

109

«But it was in the realm of style rather than content that Twain’s early newspaper work had the greatest significance for his growth as a writer». Fishkin S. F. From fact to fiction: Journalism and imaginative writing in America. Baltimore and Lnd.: The John Hopkins Univ.

110

«Certainly, his journalism was invaluable to him in one way: it furnished him a ready outlet and kept him writing during his formative years». Bellamy G. Mark Twain as a Literary Artist. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950. P.90.

111

«Possibly a shorthand signature for one of Twain's early pen names of W. Epaminondas Adrastus Blab». Muscatine Journal 1853–1855: [сайт].

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