Comments on: Review Assignment

By: Giddings

Giddings — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:41:40 +0000

I’ll talk to you in a bit. We’ll work something out.

By: jordanlewis

jordanlewis — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:26:55 +0000

Giddings…
I feel like a broken record and im sorry…
what should i do if hypothetically speaking….
I was gone tommorow at 9am to the tacoma dome to set up sound for graduation….

By: bryan

bryan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:40:28 +0000

the story they gave only seemed like a hunch so yea i figured i’d ask maybe getting a more exact answer. but it seems pretty close for a researched guess.

By: Giddings

Giddings — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:58:02 +0000

Yeah, I was just curious enough to cut and paste it into Google…

Basically no one is 100% sure, but the butler thing is right up Twain’s alley as far as his sense of humor goes.

By: bryan

bryan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:03:44 +0000

haha yea that’s what i found when i googled it. something from the mark twain project. thanx though.

lol so much for extra credit huh : /

By: Giddings

Giddings — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:50:13 +0000

Notably, this warning was not signed by “The Author,” but rather by his agent writing on the author’s behalf. These are ostensibly not the author’s words, but the words of “G. G.,” who posts them much as he would a “No Trespassing” sign, by order of the author. So who is “G. G.” and why is he given the title “Chief of Ordnance?” Our best guess in 1985 was that the mysterious initials were a somewhat guarded reference to Mark Twain’s hero and friend General Ulysses S. Grant, a conjecture that has long since seemed inadequate.

For the new edition, we had access for the first time to Mark Twain’s manuscript of this “NOTICE.” It showed, among other things, that he toyed with the idea of identifying “G. G.” as “Chief of Artillery.” This small detail established that the purpose of the title was to indicate that “G. G.” had the fire-power to carry out his threats. Still, the identity of “G.G.” remained stubbornly mysterious, until editor Lin Salamo suggested that the initials were a private joke, and that they stood not for the very public figure of General Grant, but for George Griffin, the Clemenses’ butler and chief factotum from 1875 to 1891—an idea that could be strongly corroborated, if not actually proven.

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/events/bancroftiana/117/newhuck.html

By: bryan

bryan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:17:23 +0000

actually can i have extra credit if i find out??? lol
unless you already know….you know..

By: bryan

bryan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:08:33 +0000

who was G.G., Chief of Ordnance?

By: Giddings

Giddings — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:19:18 +0000

We can have part of it. We will look at one of the Hemingway stories in that packet and talk briefly about his style (there will be a bit on the test concerning him), but otherwise we can use class time to work on the project, though many people will likely be in the position that they can’t work on it at school depending on the form their project is taking.

By: Kylee

Kylee — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:55:31 +0000

Hey, I was just wondering if we are getting Monday’s class period to work on our project?