KOALATY WRITING

Mark Twain’s Brilliant Letter to Helen Keller About the Myth of Originality

“The soul… of all human utterances is plagiarism” (Mark Twain)

Philip S. Naudus
The Writing Cooperative
3 min readApr 12, 2022

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“All ideas are secondhand” — Mark Twain (upklyak/freepik)

Soon after Hellen Keller published The Frost King, she found herself caught in an intense legal battle.

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High school teacher by day, koala by night. My wife is a cartoonist with a Ph.D., and she co-authors all of these articles.