[lit-ideas] Re: Mark Twain
- From: John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 13:54:03 -0500
JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
Am I the only person on the face of the planet who has not read "The
Diaries of Adam & Eve" by Twain? A friend read some excerpts to me
yesterday and I promptly ordered the book. Anything that makes me
laugh out loud is well worth $11.
Julie Krueger
If you liked that one, you may also like this:
http://academics.triton.edu/uc/english.html
It's a section from WHAT IS MAN by Twain. This part is about how
students in Twain's day murdered the English language and other academic
subjects. It sounds like not much has changed...
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Lisle, IL, USA
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