Sunday, May 23, 2010

The Personal Recollections of Samuel L. Clemens

Mark Twain's 100 Year-old Autobiography Features 'Vibrating Sex Toy':

"A section of the memoir will detail his little-known but scandalous relationship with Isabel Van Kleek Lyon, who became his secretary after the death of his wife Olivia in 1904. Twain was so close to Lyon that she once bought him an electric vibrating sex toy. But she was abruptly sacked in 1909, after the author claimed she had 'hypnotised' him into giving her power of attorney over his estate.
Their ill-fated relationship will be recounted in full in a 400-page addendum, which Twain wrote during the last year of his life."

I was not aware Clemens had left 5,000 pages of memoirs with instructions not to publish until 100 years after his death.  I think the appropriate scholarly response based on the quote above may be the Spock eyebrow.
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