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A Fan in a Yankee’s Court: the Mark Twain House

February 4th, 2010 No Comments

I have always been interested to see, up close, where writers worked and lived. Pablo Neruda’s house in Santiago, Chile, for instance, demonstrates his obsession with boats and the sea. All of the ceilings are low to the ground and the windows shaped like portholes. The house’s title “La Chascona,” comes from Neruda’s nickname for [...]

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