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  A Comment on “Mark Twain A Spiritual Tragedy” Current Literature Nov. 1912 The first line of this article states that “That supreme longing of the soul of a man–the wish to be understood–made one great tragedy of the career of Samuel L. Clemens.” The article goes on to say the he would write to teach men about the deeper meaning of life but that these men could never understand it. If success were measured …

…be troubled by his literary career. Perhaps again he was troubled because of personal comfits in which case the article should not have been published in a literary magazine. It’s depressing to hear about oneself in such an awkward way as this. When one is put on paper and sees that this only amounts to 500 words, especially Twain has a right to be disappointed. He is definitely a man worth a million good words.