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Thursday, June 12,2003
Strange Weather Lately
The author recalls two "country boys from Middle America"--Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln--in a lecture presented at the Mark Twain House.
By Kurt Vonnegut
The following was adapted from a Clemens Lecture presented in April for the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut. It originally appeared in the Chicago-based political magazine In These Times.
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