... it necessary. As far his structure, Kaplan says, "In plotting a book his structural sense was weak; intoxicated by a hunch, he seldom saw far ahead, and too many of his stories peter out from the author's fatigue or surfeit. His wayward techniques came close to free association. This method served him best after he had conjured up characters from long ago, who ... on this image, however, can take us farther from an understanding of who Twain really was. He was a complicated man who has been called everything from a humorist, to a reformer, to a prophet. He has always faced strong critic...

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