The Interview

A newly published piece by Mark Twain:

No one likes to be interviewed, and yet no one likes to say no
interviewers are courteous and gentle-mannered, even when they come
destroy.

I must not be understood to mean that they ever comeconsciously to destroy or are aware afterward that they have destroyed;no, I think their attitude is more that of the cyclone, which comeswith the gracious purpose of cooling off a sweltering village, and isnot aware, afterward, that it has done that village...