... into a story Burns (2001). Twain wrote, "To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself anybody can have ideas "the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on ... that would provide Clemens with his' pseudonym, that would last for generations to come. He was required to anticipate the force of the current going upstream and downstream make mental- notes of the changing depths at every crucial...

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