We do not know why this passage and corresponding symbols did not appear in the published book (Figure 1). Perhaps Twain or his editor deemed them redundant, as Twain slipped a similar witticism into his previous novel, The American Claimant (1892): “No weather will be found in this book. . . . Nothing breaks up an author’s progress like having to stop every few pages to fuss-up the weather” (ix). Writing to his publisher in 1893, Twain promoted the newly completed Pudd’nhead Wilson in similar terms: “There ain’t any weather in, and there ain’t any scenery—the story is stripped for flight!” (Mark Twain’s Letters 355). Yet the proposed preface would have added a strange, new—and, as I will argue below, important—twist on Claimant’s earlier conceit. Twain instructed his printer to intersperse the symbols throughout and that it was “not necessary that they fit the weather of the

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道森登陆的天气：吐温、切斯纳特和种族主义气候

我们不知道为什么这一段和相应的符号没有出现在出版的书中（图 1）。也许吐温或他的编辑认为它们是多余的，因为吐温在他之前的小说《美国索赔人》（1892）中加入了类似的俏皮话：“在这本书中找不到天气。. . . 没有什么比每隔几页就停下来扰乱天气更能阻碍作者的进步了”（ix）。1893 年，吐温写信给他的出版商，用类似的话宣传了新完成的 Pudd'nhead Wilson：“那里没有任何天气，也没有任何风景——故事被剥离以供飞行！” （马克吐温的书信 355）。然而，拟议的序言会增加一个奇怪的、新的——正如我将在下面论证的，重要的——对索赔人早先的自负的扭曲。