February 26 Thursday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Orion. He was “grinding away” on The Prince and the Pauper. He needed to get other things off his mind so challenged Orion to write two books, works that Sam would never have time to do but which he’d thought of years before. Clearly, Sam used a subtle form of psychology on his hapless brother, because the two books he suggested were: “The Autobiography of a Coward,” and “Confessions of a Life that was a Failure.” He likened such a work to Casanova’s Memoires (not yet in English) and Rosseau’s writings. The “Failure” was not to realize he was a failure [MTLE 5: 27-8]. What did Orion realize?