[thefactor]

“All generalizations are false, including this one.” -MT

[a fool in paradise]

What do you think he’d make of our current House, Senate and Oval Office occupants?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain

[Larry Lucido]

That rumor has been exaggerated.

[jessduntno]

My boys and I are going to see Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain sometime in the nest couple of weeks. We had tickets that were canceled because of the death of his lovely and talented wife. Twain was an American original.

[JennysCool]

In with the comet, out with the comet ...

A once-in-a-millennium man.

Thanks for the reminder, Borges.

[bamahead]

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
— Mark Twain

[CPOSharky]

He is alive and well on “River World.”

[antceecee]

"To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals." - Mark Twain's Autobiography

"...when you are in politics you are in a wasp's nest with a short shirt-tail, as the saying is." - "The Chronicle of Young Satan"

"I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's." - Mark Twain in Eruption

[VRW Conspirator]

bump

[definitelynotaliberal]

Thank you for posting this. The man and his literature have meant so much to me in my transition from liberal to conservative.

[green pastures]

Halley Came to Jackson

(Mary-Chapin Carpenter)

Late one night when the wind was still
Daddy brought the baby to the windowsill
To see a bit of heaven shoot across the sky
The one and only time Daddy saw it fly.


It came from the East just as bright as a torch
The neighbors had a party on their porch
Daddy rocked the baby, Mother said "Amen"
When Halley came to visit in 1910.


Now back then Jackson was a real small town
And it's not every night a comet comes around
It was almost 80 years since its last time thru
So I bet your mother would have said "Amen" too.


As its tail stretched out like a stardust streak
The papers wrote about it every day for a week
It wondered where it's going and where it's been
When Halley came to Jackson in 1910.


Daddy told the baby sleeping in his arms
To dream a little dream of the comet's charms
And he made a little wish as she slept so sound
In 1986 that old wish came round.


It came from the East just as bright as a torch
She saw it in the sky from her Daddy's porch
It was heavenly sent as it was back then
When Halley came to Jackson in 1910.


Late one night when the wind was still. . .

[stefanbatory]

ping!

[Saundra Duffy]

Does anyone know what he was doing in Hawaii on the Big Island way back when?

[nkycincinnatikid]

Only Eighty Years ago here.

“When the world ends I want to be in Cincinnati because it it always twenty years behind the times”
attr: Mark Twain

[JPG]

Gees...now who’s gonna paint the fence?

[Pollster1]

The rumors of my death . . . were not exaggerated this time.

[trumandogz]

Twain became a leftist later in life opposing the Spanish American War and advocating labor unions.

“Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.”

[Artcore]

For anybody who might be interested: an old Edison film of the man himself and his daughters from 1909.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leYj—P4CgQ

[Tennessee Nana]

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”