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I could live without most of the Americana stuff that he's most well known for but The Mysterious Stranger is a masterpiece. His essays and letters are also really good.
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I like the part in Conneticut Yankee where he basically murders half of ENgland
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Aug 24, 2014 05:10
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Mark Twain is a really good writer and none of the best American authors of the 20th century would have been poo poo without his body of work, and they all admit as much proudly.
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well sure yall like him and all but this dude was on star trek i wouldnt trust him around tom sawyer if you get my drift
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Sloppy posted:I like the part in Conneticut Yankee where he basically murders half of ENgland I loved the part where there was an asian guy doing magic tricks and the guy publicly humiliated him and had him dragged away in chains.
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Aug 24, 2014 05:13
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I like twain because he proves a conventional education isn't what's needed to be successful
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Aug 24, 2014 05:14
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He's my great great great great uncle actually
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Aug 24, 2014 06:17
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The adventures of mark twain is one of the greatest films ever made
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Aug 24, 2014 06:21
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Were he alive I'm sure he would be ashamed of that. Twain rules, though Austen is pretty bomb too but lots of great authors hate other great authors a whole lot no biggie but it does produce a lot of hilarious quotes
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Aug 24, 2014 06:22
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What was that movie where Whoppi Goldberg goes back in time to Camelot and she's an astrophysicist? This was a real movie, I'm not even joking.
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Aug 24, 2014 06:23
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Hobohemian posted:What was that movie where Whoppi Goldberg goes back in time to Camelot and she's an astrophysicist? This was a real movie, I'm not even joking. 12 years a slave?
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Aug 24, 2014 06:24
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Quickscope420dad posted:12 years a slave? Camelot, sir. It is in England. Gosh, it's like you didn't even read my post.
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Aug 24, 2014 06:25
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For sale: baby shoes, worn once.
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Hobohemian posted:Camelot, sir. It is in England. Gosh, it's like you didn't even read my post. that isn't in 12 years a slave?
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Aug 24, 2014 06:25
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Hobohemian posted:What was that movie where Whoppi Goldberg goes back in time to Camelot and she's an astrophysicist? This was a real movie, I'm not even joking. Jumpin' Jack Flash
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Aug 24, 2014 06:27
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Dead Precedents posted:“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” This is literally the most GBS thing anyone has ever said in history.
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Sloppy posted:I like the part in Conneticut Yankee where he basically murders half of ENgland Yeah that's pretty great.
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Aug 24, 2014 06:32
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Aug 24, 2014 06:48
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barfoid 4 posted:Funnier than GBS and even fyad. concrete pavement is also funnier than either of these things
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Aug 24, 2014 06:50
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"All history and honest observation will show that the Red Man is a skulking coward and a windy braggart, who strikes without warning--usually from an ambush or under cover of night, and nearly always bringing a force of about five or six to one against his enemy; kills helpless women and little children, and massacres th e men in their beds; and then brags about it as long as he lives, and his son and his grandson and great-grandson after him glorify it among the "heroic deeds of their ancestors." A regiment of Fenians will fill the whole world with the noise of it when they are getting ready invade Canada; but when the Red Man declares war, the first intimation his friend the white man whom he supped with at twilight has of it, is when the war-whoop rings in his ears and tomahawk sinks into his brain. . ." What a laugher
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Aug 24, 2014 06:52
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barfoid 4 posted:Funnier than GBS sure barfoid 4 posted:and even fyad. a toss-up, imho
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Aug 24, 2014 06:53
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BlackJosh posted:"All history and honest observation will show that the Red Man is a skulking coward and a windy braggart, who strikes without warning--usually from an ambush or under cover of night, and nearly always bringing a force of about five or six to one against his enemy; kills helpless women and little children, and massacres th e men in their beds; and then brags about it as long as he lives, and his son and his grandson and great-grandson after him glorify it among the "heroic deeds of their ancestors." A regiment of Fenians will fill the whole world with the noise of it when they are getting ready invade Canada; but when the Red Man declares war, the first intimation his friend the white man whom he supped with at twilight has of it, is when the war-whoop rings in his ears and tomahawk sinks into his brain. . ." pretty good satire imo Animal-Mother posted:Mark Twain was the loving man.
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Aug 24, 2014 06:57
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Aug 24, 2014 07:01
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Wasn't his real name, thread voted 1
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Aug 24, 2014 07:06
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Inevitable posted:Wasn't his real name, thread voted 1 I'm going to kill you irl.
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Aug 24, 2014 07:07
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I loved how he skewered religion and religious leaders. He felt that Hawaiian culture was made no better by the arrival of the missionaries to the islands. One thing that amused him greatly was the fact that the natives came to church dressed (or not) in ways that the missionaries though scandalous. So they gave clothes to the natives. With results they did not expect. "A brown, stately dame would sweep up the aisle with a world of airs, with nothing in the world on but a "stovepipe" hat and a pair of cheap gloves; another dame would follow, tricked out in a man's shirt, and nothing else; another one would enter with a flourish, with simply the sleeves of a bright calico dress tied around her waist and the rest of the garment dragging behind like a peacock's tail off duty....They gazed at each other with happy admiration, and it was plain to see that the young girls were taking note of what each other had on, as naturally as if they had always lived in a land of Bibles and knew what churches were made for; here was the evidence of a dawning civilization."
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Aug 24, 2014 07:20
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Moridin920 posted:pretty good satire imo Nah dude. Might've been hyperbolic but that dude did not like indians one bit. Why do you think Injun Joe was the bad guy?
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Aug 24, 2014 07:27
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so their philosophical bearing is not an outcome of mental training, intellectual fortitude, reasoning; it is mere animal training; they are white Indians.
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Aug 24, 2014 07:35
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BlackJosh posted:Nah dude. Might've been hyperbolic but that dude did not like indians one bit. Why do you think Injun Joe was the bad guy? To be fair he did live in the time where indians would literally ride into homesteads, bash babies against rocks and then kidnap and rape daughters. People didn't like Indians for good reasons, not just because they wanted their land. Although they did kill them to take their land too.
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Absolute Lithops posted:so their philosophical bearing is not an outcome of mental training, intellectual fortitude, reasoning; it is mere animal training; they are white Indians. same
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Aug 24, 2014 07:43
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MegaGatts posted:To be fair he did live in the time where indians would literally ride into homesteads, bash babies against rocks and then kidnap and rape daughters. People didn't like Indians for good reasons, not just because they wanted their land. Although they did kill them to take their land too. lol I wonder why they did that though
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Aug 24, 2014 07:44
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Narciss posted:Don't let them hear you say that. quoting this noob from page one just to say lmao
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Aug 24, 2014 07:47
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The dying pink forum uses every last breath in its dying body to counter claims of irrelevancy.
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Moridin920 posted:lol I wonder why they did that though Native Americans loved to initiate conflicts with peaceful white setttlers, such is their sad legacy
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Aug 24, 2014 07:55
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Twain reaming the poo poo out of James Fenimore Cooper is the most noble thing he ever did in a lifetime of good works IMHO.
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Aug 24, 2014 07:55
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It's really sad, they wore such beautiful headdresses
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Aug 24, 2014 07:56
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Fisticuffs posted:Native Americans loved to initiate conflicts with peaceful white setttlers, such is their sad legacy I think it's time that the U.S. Government formally issues a statement of forgiveness.
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Aug 24, 2014 08:06
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look we let them have land didn't we that's forgiveness enough for their crimes
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they have casinos and are making the redskins change their name what more do they want????????????
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Mark Twain owns, in Roughing It he talks mad poo poo about Mormons and it's funny how they haven't changed in over 100 years.
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EmperorFritoBandito posted:Twain reaming the poo poo out of James Fenimore Cooper is the most noble thing he ever did in a lifetime of good works IMHO. Twain posted:For instance: one of his acute Indian experts, Chingachgook (pronounced Chicago, I think), has lost the trail of a person he is tracking through the forest. Apparently that trail is hopelessly lost. Neither you nor I could ever have guessed the way to find it. It was very different with Chicago. Chicago was not stumped for long. He turned a running stream out of its course, and there, in the slush in its old bed, were that person's moccasin tracks. The current did not wash them away, as it would have done in all other like cases -- no, even the eternal laws of Nature have to vacate when Cooper wants to put up a delicate job of woodcraft on the reader. 
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