Mark Twain

Hey Folks,

I’ve started re-reading Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court, and thought it might be fun to share pieces of Twain’s political commentary with you here – periodically - as I read through it.

Many Americans aren’t aware that their beloved humorist was also an angry socialist. Yep! and he had a lot of good things to say about the human experience. His insights remain pertinent to this day. We haven’t changed much from Twain’s day – or from King Arthur’s, for that matter.

If you haven’t read the book, you should. Maybe my periodic selections will lead you to experience “the longest sustained invective in the English language.”

- Uke Man


Chapter 5 - with the Yankee in prison working to get out:

Presently this thought occurred to me: how heedless I have been! when the boy gets calm, he will wonder why a great magician like me should have begged a boy like him to help me get out of this place; he will put this and that together, and will see that I am a humbug.

I worried over that heedless blunder for an hour, and called myself a great many hard names, meantime. But finally it occurred to me all of a sudden that these animals didn’t reason; that they never put this and that together; that all their talk showed that they didn’t know a discrepancy when they saw it.