Writer's quote of the day:

This seemed appropriate 😉

#Writing #WritingCommunity #Twain

Twain Dreams

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/06/twain-dreams-samuel-clemens-john-jeremiah-sullivan/

#HackerNews #Twain #Dreams #literature #SamuelClemens #storytelling #dreams

“Dog & Twain” (Mark)
A drawing of mine from last year

#marktwain #twain #writer #dog #drawing

I realized today, while listening to the audiobook of Tom Sawyer, that somehow I reached mid-to-late adulthood with a degree in English literature without actually reading a book that's considered an essential of American writing.

(See also: Huckleberry Finn)

#Twain #MarkTwain #TomSawyer #booksIdidnotread

Mark #Twain
#MarkTwain #HuckleberryFinn #TomSawyer
#USA #Travel #Literature

https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/chronologie/Mark-Twain-Der-Erfinder-von-Tom-Sawyer-und-Huckleberry-Finn,audio33076.html

https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/zeitzeichen/audio-mark-twain-der-erste-rockstar-der-literatur-100.html

"In his article Mark #Twain – The Licensed Jester (Tribune, 26 November 1943), George #Orwell
...
Mark Twain’s pamphlet was not reissued until 1961 when Seven Seas Books, an East #German #publisher, reprinted it with an introduction by Stefan Heym. Stefan #Heym later became a dissident but remained a socialist until his death in 2001 aged eighty eight. #SevenSeasBooks was of course owned by the #EastGerman government and published radical English language #books. "
https://orwellsociety.com/down-the-memory-hole/

Lies, damned lies and statistics
A process to track down the REAL originators of quotes. Try this at https://www.samyoung.co.nz/2025/03/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics.html
#Quote #QuoteInvestigator #Disraeli #Twain #Mackay #Academic

Shania Twain https://www.girlselfie.com/625147/shania-twain-8/ #Celeb #CelebInLingerie #celebrities #CelebritiesInLingerie #Celebrity #CelebsInLingerie #lingerie #Shania #Twain

Shania Twain https://www.girlselfie.com/625137/shania-twain-6/ #Celeb #CelebInLingerie #celebrities #CelebritiesInLingerie #Celebrity #CelebsInLingerie #lingerie #Shania #Twain

“I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God? Howbeit, I aspire!”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/12/19/i-was-in-the-death-struggle-with-self-god-and-satan-fought-for-my-soul-those-three-long-hours-god-conquered-now-i-have-only-one-doubt-left-which-of-the-twain-was-god-howbeit/

#Aceldama #aleisterCrowley #aspire #book #CollectedWorks #conquered #deathStruggle #doubt #fought #god #haveOnly #Howbeit #left #longHours #mySoul #now #one #poetry #quote #satan #Self #three #twain #which

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."

Mark Twain

#truth #twain

This is my motto I always say. If you are truthful, you can be lazy.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Mark Twain

#twain #quote

This week in #college:

#Digital #Humanities class: got to put together a TEI-XML file of Sonnet 20 by William #Shakespeare. Started Project 4 which in putting together a DCMI file on The Prince and the Pauper by Mark #Twain.

#SocialPsychology: discussed biases and stereotypes. Have an article review to do. Prepped for test next week.

#ChildhoodPsychopathology: discussed #OCD and other #compulsive #behaviors. Had quiz which I got a 16/20 on.

Fall break here I come!

"East is East and West is West, but none of us is gonna meet Mark Twain." — Archie Bunker — — — #ArchieBunker #quote #quotes #east #west #quip #twain #meet #meet #humor #funny #joke #malaprop #misspeak #misquotation

#Twain

If you haven't yet read #PercivalEverett's book, #James you must! It is brilliant, poignant, and necessary.

#Twain
#HuckFinn
#litstudies
#bookstodon

#PercivalEverett" “My writing ‘James’ is not in any way an indictment of #Twain at all,” #Everett told NPR. “I’m writing the novel that Twain was not ill-equipped, but unequipped to write. That being the story of Jim. So I consider this more as being in discourse with Twain.”

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/-percival-everett-james-book-huckleberry-finn-rcna143890

#PercivalEverett" “My writing ‘James’ is not in any way an indictment of #Twain at all,” #Everett told NPR. “I’m writing the novel that Twain was not ill-equipped, but unequipped to write. That being the story of Jim. So I consider this more as being in discourse with Twain.”

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/-percival-everett-james-book-huckleberry-finn-rcna143890

#litstudies
#bookstodon

#QoTD: “It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”

Mark #Twain

Sounds like every Trump clown.

@ojelabii @DerLeiermann yes! #twain