“Regarding the S.S. United States, in Bob voice, is this really the end? ;^)”
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In May 1897, there was a rumor among journalists that author Mark Twain was either dead or dying of a serious illness. Looking for confirmation, journalist Frank Marshall White of the New York Journal contacted Twain to see if there was any truth to the rumors. Twain responded to White with a letter in which he humorously said “The report of my death was an exaggeration.”
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https://www.dictionary.com/browse/the-reports-of-my-death-are-greatly-exaggerated
He was praised as the “greatest humorist
the United States
has produced,”[2] with William Faulkner calling him “the father of American literature.”[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835—two weeks after the perihelion of Halley’s Comet. “I came in with Halley’s Comet,” Mark Twain commented in 1909. “It is coming again next year. The Almighty has said, no doubt, ‘Now there are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’” He died on April 21, 1910—one day after the comet had once again reached its perihelion.
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/future/miscellany/mark-twain-again-follows-halleys-comet