Mark Twain

Just watched the first part of the Ken Burns PBS show on Mark Twain. If you're a Twain fan, don't miss tomorrow night's second part.


I also just got out some books to re-read a couple of sections of his writings they talked about. Chapter 31 of Huckleberry Finn, when Huck can't decide whether or not to turn Jim in as a runaway slave and, deciding not to, says, "All right then, I'll go to hell" is one of the most electrifying statements ever written.


And his short article "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It" cannot help but make you cry as a former slave tells how her family was sold off one by one. Powerful stuff.


He was something special the likes of which we haven't seen since.