On this day in 1865 Samuel Clemens published his first story, the Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County in the New York Saturday Press. This story would become enormously popular and be reprinted in several versions over the years. It would also become the title story for Clemens first book…
Makes me think of Basho’s famous poem, here in Allen Ginsberg’s version:
The old pond
A frog jumped in,
Kerplunk!
What a kerplunk, what a splash!
The waves from which continue and continue to lap many shores…
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