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** [[Shaggy Dog Story]]
* ''The Innocents Abroad'' (1869)
** [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]: During the Holy Land leg of their journey, Twain's fellow passengers on the USS ''Quaker City'' fancied themselves as this. In real life, they were just a bunch of [[Hawaiian
** [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals]]: Twain refers to every tour guide he encounters on the European continent as 'Ferguson'. This also counts as a [[Running Gag]], and, eventually, a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. Really.
** [[The Nicknamer]]: Twain himself gave nicknames to most of the Quaker City's passengers. One of these, a seventeen-year-old tourist who was nicknamed 'Interrogation Point' and was described 'young, and green, and not bright, not learned, and not wise', later became Twain's brother-in-law.
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** [[The Plan]]
* ''To the Person Sitting in Darkness'' (1901)
** [[As the Good Book Says...]]: The title is an ironic reference to Matthew 4:16, "The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light."
** [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped]]
** [[Take That]]: Like most of Clemen's later works, it's a denouncement of imperialism.
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