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  • 23Sep

    Ban Lifts On Indecent Eve

    After being banned for 105 years, patrons of the Charlton Public Library in Massachusetts can finally get their hands on the book Eve’s Diary by Mark Twain.  The book, Twain’s satirical version of the Adam and Eve story, was banned

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    By Jim in Books 2 Comments »
  • 21Apr

    Twain Wisdom

    Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king.

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    By Jim in Quotes 2 Comments »
  • 09Jul

    Wit And Wisdom

    I came across this image of Mark Twain in Nikola Tesla’s lab and thought, since it’s Nikola’s birthday tomorrow, I’d put it up here.  Apparently the two were friends.  I can’t help but wonder what it would have been like

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    By Jim in Intelligentsia 4 Comments »