The Interview was not a happy invention. It is perhaps the poorest of all ways of getting at what is in a man. In the first place, the interviewer is the reverse of an inspiration, because you are afraid of him. —Mark Twain (in an essay recently published for the first time)
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters.
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Thanks for the link, Steve. Yet another reason to be impressed by Mr. Clemens.
There's a letter of Twain's in which he also writes about the interview (perhaps a testing of ideas for this essay?). He compares the problem of translating speech into print to using a "wagon on water," a phrase I've been trying to find a reason to borrow since reading it.