The River of Characters – Real and Imagined
Sam Clemens worked as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River from 1857-1860. It was there:
I got personally and familiarly acquainted with about all the different types of human nature that are to be found in fiction, biography, or history…When I find a well-drawn character in fiction or biography, I generally take a warm personal interest in him, for the reason that I have known him before – met him on the river.
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