Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.”
- Date
- 1894
- Local voice
- Epigraph / fictional source voice · Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar
Meaning of “October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous…”
The list reveals that every month is dangerous, turning what sounds like seasonal financial advice into a satire on speculative risk and the false hope that timing alone makes gambling safe.
Where does it come from?
Pudd’nhead Wilson, Calendar epigraph; the stock-market joke follows the reflection on disagreeable people.
Why the local voice matters
Twain presents this wording as a chapter-epigraph Calendar maxim. The Calendar is a fictional framing device / source voice rather than uncomplicated autobiography by Twain.
