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Pudd’nhead Wilson

Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman: if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say she did it with her teeth.- Pudd’nead Wilson’s Calendar.
Mark Twain wrote with the thought of it being a detective/ mystery novel. Twain spent a lot of time studying law, so he could write this book. In A Whisper to the Reader, Twain writes, “ A person who is ignorant of legal matters is always liable to make mistakes when he tries to photograph a court scene with ...

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half of that dog, because I would kill my half”. Every one called him instead of Dave Wilson. His career, as a lawyer was ruined, no one would come to him to seek advice. His hobby was keeping fingerprints of everyone it the town. People thought him crazy, but in the end I was worth it.
Robert Regan stated, “Wilson was to be a satirized hero, a man who revels in being praised for the wrong reasons by the wrong people.” This says that Wilson would have been a very successful lawyer, but people judged him to the wrong degree. Pudd’nhead did things to keep himself occupied over the years. Eberhard Alsen said, “Wilson soon finds out that his fight for success is goi8n to be a protracted one, but he uses his time well.” He liked keeping track of the townsfolk’s fingerprints. Eberhard Alsen wrote, “While his interest in palmistry and finger printing further convinces that he is indeed a fool, Wilson establishes is ‘records’, a collection of fingerprints of every person and child in ...

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Added: 1/14/2008 09:49:01 AM
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