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Oh my mr twain would be rocking on talk tv

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Page after page filled with sly oneliners

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The print in this book is small but the messages are huge

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The bible according to mark twain provides the reader with a reassuringly consistent picture of samuel clemens view not necessarily of god or of heaven or of angels if one believes in the existence of such things but of such parts of the christian bible that he views as thoroughly ridiculous if applied literally

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Oh i suppose that if the theists faith insists that every word in those testaments was literally dictated by god then he or she may be affronted by clemens treatment of those words but any wellread theologian is going to chuckle over the mental imagery created by clemens writing

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Extracts from adams diary also relatively lengthy is utterly hilarious as the reader sees poor adams growing vexation with eve whose feminine wisdom definitely outstrips his masculine version but whose propensity to try to continually talk to him vexes him mightily and plays upon a popular stereotype of women as wishing to communicate their thoughts and feelings verbally as contrasted with strong and silent type males

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Most of the selections are prefaced by analytical commentary by the editors often attempting to establish the time frame in which they were written

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After printing autobiography of eve as it was published they repeat it as an appendix but now including additional passages that had been deleted before publication