Wow. Now that's criticism. I have never read Deerslayer, (nor am I likely to) but that is a serious flaying. I don't know if Twain was as harsh in normal circumstances, but I would pity anyone who got on the wrong end of that pen.
"It was only when he did not get up to take a bow that anyone realised something had gone wrong."
Haha! We used that in the Baroque Picture Horror Show at 1897! Aubrey Beardsley got murdered by the actress playing Dorian Gray, (when his character, Basil Hallward was meant to be being murdered). We dragged him off-stage and only realised he wasn't hamming when he missed his curtain call!
(There was a certain amount of suspended disbelief at work here I admit, as neither I (Oscar Wilde) nor the murderess wished for the play to be cut short, just because one of the actors had been murdered).
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Date: 2008-12-11 02:19 pm (UTC)"It was only when he did not get up to take a bow that anyone realised something had gone wrong."
Haha! We used that in the Baroque Picture Horror Show at 1897! Aubrey Beardsley got murdered by the actress playing Dorian Gray, (when his character, Basil Hallward was meant to be being murdered). We dragged him off-stage and only realised he wasn't hamming when he missed his curtain call!
(There was a certain amount of suspended disbelief at work here I admit, as neither I (Oscar Wilde) nor the murderess wished for the play to be cut short, just because one of the actors had been murdered).