style="font-size:15px;"> «Entering the Spanish tunnel in A street, you grope along by candle light for two hundred and fifty feet – but you need not count your steps – keep on going until you come to a horse <…> You are now upon the confines of the ledge, and from this point several drifts branch out to different portions of the mine. Without stopping to admire these gloomy grottoes you descend a ladder and halt upon a landing where you are fenced in with an open-work labyrinth of timbers some eighteen inches square, extending in front of you and behind you, and far away above you and below you, until they are lost in darkness». Twain M. The Spanish mine / The Works of Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1 1851–1864. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1979. P. 164.
83
«The face of the walls is of a dark blue color, sparkling with pyrites, or sulphurets, or something, and beautifully marbled with little crooked streaks of lightning as white as loaf sugar». Twain M. The Spanish [Mine] / The Works of Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1 1851–1864. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1979.P. 167.
84
В оригинальном тексте использовано местоимение «мы» – таковы были стандарты журналистики.
85
«“A few inches of water deemed necessary. Every department of the Spanish mine is now in first class working order <….>». still remain in the lower gallery, but it interferes with nobody, and can be easily bailed out whenever it may be». Ibid.
86
«Intelligent people can understand, now, that about a hundred dollars a day may be saved in this way, without even taking into consideration the costly job of re-timbering every two or three years, which is rendered unnecessary by it – and by way of driving the proposition into heads like the Unreliable's, which is filled with oysters instead of brains, we will say that by building these walls, you are saved the time and labor of lowering heavy timbers 300 feet into the earth <…>». Ibid.
87
«The Unreliable of the Union went also – for the purpose of distorting the facts». Twain M. A big thing in Washoe city // Mack E. M. Mark Twain in Nevada. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. P. 224.
88
«Next there are the specific political burlesque in which Mark Twain parodied legislative proceedings of the territorial legislature». Cox J. M. Mark Twain: The fate of humor. Columbia: University of Missouri press, 2002.P. 15.
89
[Cries, "Hannah! Hannah!" "Gentlemen, wait a moment!" "I call for the adoption of the report before we have any speaking!"] Twain M. The Bolters in Convention // Mark Twain of the Enterprise / Ed. By H. N. Smith. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1957. P. 113.
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«Mr. Gregory did this with much grace and dignity, albeit he affected to stammer and gasp, and hesitate, and look colicky, and miscall the names, and miscall them again by way of correcting himself, and grab desperately at invisible things in the air – all with a charming pretense of being scared». Twain M. A big thing in Washoe city … P. 224.
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«He touched us very agreeably by speaking of us as "those intelligent reporters who officiated at the late Constitutional Convention." [The word «intelligent» is our own. We had an idea it would make the sentence read better.]». Twain M. The Bolters in Convention …P. 114.
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«It was a dusty, a very dusty, Convention, and as has been previously remarked in America, we are a great people». Ibid.
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Webb J. Historical Perspective on the New Journalism // A Sourcebook of American Literary Journalism: Representative Writers in an Emerging Genre / Ed. T. B. Connery. New York: Greenwood Press,1992.P. 18.
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Боброва М. Н. Марк Твен. Очерк творчества. М.: Гос. изд. худ. лит., 1962. С. 74.
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«He began to use the pseudonym "Mark Twain" for personal and humorous journalism, although routine news items still bore the byline Samuel L. Clemens». Nelson J. Mark Twain // A Sourcebook of American Literary Journalism: Representative Writers in an Emerging Genre / Ed. T. B. Connery. Greenwood Press: New York, 1992. P. 43.
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«We engaged a good many young ladies last Tuesday to go with us, thinking that out of the lot we should certainly be able to secure one, at the appointed time, but they all seemed to have got a little angry about something—nobody knows what, for the ways of women are past finding out». Twain M. Sanitary Ball / The Works of Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1 1851–1864. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1979. P. 185.
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«The queenly Mrs. L. R. was attractively attired in her new and beautiful false teeth, and the bon jour effect they naturally produced was heightened by her enchanting and well sustained smile». Twain M. The Pioneer’s Ball / The Works of Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 2 1864–1865. Berkley: Univ. of California Press, 1981. P. 369.
98
«Everybody knows she is old; everybody knows she is repaired (you might almost say built) with artificial bones and hair and muscles and things, from the ground up – put together scrap by scrap – and everybody knows, also, that all one would have to do would be to pull out her key-pin and she would go to pieces like a Chinese puzzle». Ibid.
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«Mr. Fisher offered an amendment, to read "the House of Representatives and Council concurring." [Mr. Fisher got his notion from – well – say inspiration, for instance. – REPORTER.]». Twain M Legislative proceedings // Mark Twain of the Enterprise / Ed. By H. N. Smith. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1957.P. 139.
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«The parliamentary skirmishing still goes on, with unabated intelligence. This Aggregation of Wisdom can frame a concurrent resolution, but we must have time we must have a reasonable length of time to do it in». Ibid.
101
«He was in fact a prominent member of a burlesque Third House of the legislature <…>». Cox J. M. Mark Twain: The fate of humor.Columbia: University of Missouri press, 2002. P. 15.
102
«After the first quarter of an
