“… when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are. Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.”

—  Mark Twain

advice to his brother Orion, p. 8.
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010)

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