The Complete Works of Mark Twain [pseud.] Twelve (12)
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Y. M. No. O. M. How many times did you try the experi- ment? Y. M. Ten. O. M. How many successes did you score? Y. M. Not one. O. M. It is as I have said: the mind is inde- pendent of the man. He has no control over it; it does as it pleases. It will take up a subject in spite of him; it will stick to it in spite of him; it will throw it aside in spite of him. It is entirely independent of him. Y. M. Go on. Illustrate. O. M. Do you know chess? Y. M. I learned it a week ago. O. M. Did your mind ...go on playing the game all night that first night? Y. M. Don't mention it! O. M. It was eagerly, unsatisfiably interested ; it rioted in the combinations; you implored it to drop the game and let you get some sleep ? 6 5 MARK TWAIN Y. M. Yes. It wouldn't listen; it played right along. It wore me out and I got up haggard and wretched in the morning. O. M. At some time or other you have been cap- tivated by a ridiculous rhyme-jingle? Y. M. Indeed, yes! "I saw Esau kissing Kate, And she saw I saw Esau; I saw Esau, he saw Kate, And she saw — *' And so on.
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