| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Ward is largely forgotten now, except by grad students, though Morris argues that Twain borrowed his careful pauses and non sequiturs and turned talent into genius. (To hear Morris tell it, Ward was more a stand-up comic than a writer ??? his public performances were famous in the 1800s ??? with a style that seems to presage the modern comedian Steven Wright.)
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