...the Siamese Twins and had meant to write an extravagant farce about them; but, he adds, "the story changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was...along with it — a most embarrassing circumstance." Eventually, he realized that it was "not one story but two stories tangled together" that he was trying...

...intention (or motif) is apt to get abolished and find itself superseded by quite a different one — Much the same thing happened with "Pudd'nhead Wilson."...a tragedy while I was going along with it - a most embarassing circumstance. But what was a great deal worse was, that it was not one story, but two stories...

...rights. Twain whimsically describes how he followed the consequences of these developments. The tale 'changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it,' he said, and so 'I pulled one of the stories out by the roots, and left the other one - a kind of literary...

...in the preface that connects Pudd'nhead Wilson to Those Extraordinary Twins (the Siamese twin tale "changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it" and other, new characters began "taking things almost entirely into their own hands and working the...

...incidents with interesting results. So he goes to work. To write a novel? No — that is a thought that comes later; in the beginning he is only proposing...turn and created no end of confusion and annoyance. Lincoln in the Lincoln-Douglas debate: That is the issue that will continue in this country when these...

...Extraordinary Twins". In the Preface to this story. Twain reveals that during its transformation the story "changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it". What the tragedy is he does not say, though it seems it must be associated with the three new characters...

...slave into an aristocrat and a farce into a tragedy. This unplanned alteration was, Twain tells us, "a most embarrassing circumstance. But what was a...turn and created no end of confusion and annoyance" (119). Thus, what started as a topic - two people tangled together who obstruct and interrupt each...

...needs comment - its 'jackleg' nature (311). Originally, Twain wrote, the novel on which he was working 'changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it'. As this happened, he realised that what he had in front of him was 'not one story, but two stories...

...(PWET, 119). He tells how what he was writing "changed itself from a farce to a tragedy," that he found that "it was not one story, but two stories tangled together," and then, in an arresting and revealing metaphor, he says, "I pulled one of the stories out by the roots,...