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Read Mark Twain’s ‘Joan of Arc’ — It Will Surprise You and Make You Want to Become a Saint
National Catholic Register ^
| May 30, 2023
| Zubair Simonson
Posted on 05/30/2023 10:06:19 AM PDT by ebb tide
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05/30/2023 10:06:19 AM PDT
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ebb tide
To: Al Hitan; Fedora; irishjuggler; Jaded; kalee; markomalley; miele man; Mrs. Don-o; ...
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posted on
05/30/2023 10:07:01 AM PDT
by
ebb tide
(The pope ... said the church's “catechesis on sex is still in diapers.”)
To: ebb tide
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05/30/2023 10:10:28 AM PDT
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simpson96
To: ebb tide
I love Mark Twain, but have never read this one. And it just so happens I was going to order some books today...
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05/30/2023 10:24:53 AM PDT
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Twotone
To: ebb tide
Mark Twain said that of all of the books he wrote, he thought Joan of Arc was the best.
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posted on
05/30/2023 10:27:18 AM PDT
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fidelis
(👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
To: ebb tide
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05/30/2023 10:27:34 AM PDT
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Ken Regis
(I concur. )
To: ebb tide
Thriftbooks.com has Twain’s The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Vols. 1 & 2.
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05/30/2023 10:30:47 AM PDT
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mumblypeg
("Give me Stalin or St. Paul. I've seen the Future, brother; it is murder."--Leonard Cohen)
To: Twotone
Actual title: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte (Twain tells it from de Conte prospective). On Kindle, it’s 99-cents.
Twain said he spent several months in France doing research on the way he’d tell the story.
Hefty book, 452 pages.
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To: ebb tide
Every Englishman sings and memorized Agincourt the same way we sing about Midway. But they tend to shut up about anything OTHER than Agincourt when it comes to the Hundred Years War.
The French won over the English because a certain French teenager who talked to God turned the tides of war. She truly is a God-send.
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05/30/2023 10:34:58 AM PDT
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max americana
(Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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posted on
05/30/2023 10:37:24 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
To: ebb tide
I have read a lot of Twain, but not that one. Adding it to my summer reading list.
To: pepsionice
by the Sieur Louis de Conte (Twain tells it from de Conte prospective).First published with a byline of the "translator" though the ruse to conceal the name of the author didn't last more than a few months.
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05/30/2023 11:14:35 AM PDT
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SJackson
(he who controls the schools, controls the world, 1870s France)
To: ebb tide
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05/30/2023 11:18:58 AM PDT
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Quilla
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05/30/2023 11:35:32 AM PDT
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Dave911
To: Ken Regis
That didn’t take long.
Can we make this a Catholic Caucus?
To: Texas_Guy
If it helps you to feel safe, then you should have your “safe space.”
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posted on
05/30/2023 12:05:08 PM PDT
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Ken Regis
(I concur. )
To: ebb tide
Today is the anniversary of her death (May 30, 1431) and not coincidentally her feast day.
Of course that was before the calendar reform of 1582--May 30 in 1431 would be equivalent of June 9 in the Gregorian calendar.
To: ebb tide
I thought Mark Twain was an unapologetic atheist.
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05/30/2023 1:34:37 PM PDT
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Persevero
(You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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