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1 EPR-radar  Fri, Aug 30, 2013 12:32:32pm
Mark Twain himself I believe turned out to be demon-possessed,” he said, citing Twain’s book Letters from the Earth, which he called “one of the most acidic, horrific, evil books I think ever, ever written by any human being in the history of mankind.

I’m rather fond of Letters from the Earth. I suppose this wingnut thinks I am also possessed by demons.

2 aagcobb  Fri, Aug 30, 2013 12:35:53pm

re: #1 EPR-radar

I’m rather fond of Letters from the Earth. I suppose this wingnut thinks I am also possessed by demons.

Undoubtably. Have you considered an exorcism?

3 sizzzzlerz  Fri, Aug 30, 2013 1:04:57pm

I think Twain would have enjoyed being told that he was possessed. It surely would have resulted in one or two more of his works which would have been good for us.

4 EPR-radar  Fri, Aug 30, 2013 1:07:19pm

re: #3 sizzzzlerz

I think Twain would have enjoyed being told that he was possessed. It surely would have resulted in one or two more of his works which would have been good for us.

Oh yes. I’d love to see what the author of the passage below would make of today’s so-con nutjobs.

I will tell you a pleasant tale which has in it a touch of pathos. A man got religion, and asked the priest what he must do to be worthy of his new estate. The priest said, “Imitate our Father in Heaven, learn to be like him.” The man studied his Bible diligently and thoroughly and understandingly, and then with prayers for heavenly guidance instituted his imitations. He tricked his wife into falling downstairs, and she broke her back and became a paralytic for life; he betrayed his brother into the hands of a sharper, who robbed him of his all and landed him in the almshouse; he inoculated one son with hookworms, another with the sleeping sickness, another with gonorrhea; he furnished one daughter with scarlet fever and ushered her into her teens deaf, dumb, and blind for life; and after helping a rascal seduce the remaining one, he closed his doors against her and she died in a brothel cursing him. Then he reported to the priest, who said that that was no way to imitate his Father in Heaven. The convert asked wherein he had failed, but the priest changed the subject and inquired what kind of weather he was having, up his way.

5 HappyWarrior  Fri, Aug 30, 2013 2:02:56pm

Shows how nuts they are if you’re going to hate on someone awesome like Twain. Really, Demon possessed? Stop shooting acid Swanson.

6 teleskiguy  Fri, Aug 30, 2013 7:27:52pm

This Kevin Swanson fuck lives in my home state. What an asshole.

7 The Great Ralph  Sat, Aug 31, 2013 12:56:07pm

Having never read “Letters from the Earth”, I went searching for the e book and it was not readily available at several of my sources. I checked my local library, Gutenberg (damn, I wasn’t gonna get it for free), Nook, Kobo and Kindle. I also examined collections of Twain’s supposedly complete works. No dice.

I located it at Google books and picked it up for a couple of bucks.

Now why do you suppose a satirical classic that mocks religion was so hard to locate?
Hmmmmm?


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