Submitted by scott on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 17:29

This is a particularly long chapter covering several interesting topics. Twain begins by discussing the phenomena of discovery, giving several examples throughout history, and saying it confers the greatest of pleasures. He then provides a portrait of America through the ideas of an invented modern Roman. Twain then takes us on a visit to St Peters Cathedral. He is nearly over whelmed by it's size. He follows this with a discussion of the difference between Roman "barbarians" who threw Christians to the lions versus the enlightened Christians and their Inquisition. Finally, we take a tour of the Coliseum, as a monument and as a theater. This page presents two versions of the same video recording. The original uploaded to YouTube is about 1.1g in size, too large for Blip.tv. So, I experimented and exported the video into ogg video, a smaller but clearer format. I was able to upload that into Blip.tv, but Blib.tv was not able to distribute it correctly to YouTube. I found one half the video transferred. It must be mp4 in order to function on both platforms.

Reading Date
January 17, 2012
SL Venue
Fate Gardens

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