httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leYj–P4CgQ

Mark Twain filmed at his home by Thomas Edison

“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”  Mark Twain

Frye on Twain in the notebooks:

I read somewhere that Twain planned a story in which Tom sells Huck into slavery, which shows, if true, that he realized what an utter creep Tom Sawyer was. (Northrop Frye Unbuttoned, 131)