Stormy and dreary the ship casts off then lies at anchor just at the harbor entrance. The seas are to high to proceed. "We would have shone at a wake, but not at anything more festive."
Mr. Blucher's opinion was first published in the Daily Alta California June 30, 1867 but written May 19th.
This is an enhanced version of chapter 2. I've learned some new techniques with audacity and with dvd-slideshow.
Mark has booked passage on an excursion to the Holy land on board the steamer Quaker City. Included here is a clipping from Daily Alta California dated June 6, 1867. The paper was published August 18, 1867. The clipping concerns Mark's activities the day before boarding. The pdf that the clipping originally came from was made available by California Digital Newspaper Collection
His first mention of the trip, as published in the Daily Alta California is dated April 9, 1867
There is a wonderful moment in this chapter when Twain steps out on deck of the schooner at night in the moonlight. The description of his vista is almost transcendent.
I've recently been responding to various requests to sign petitions related to Obama's environmental treachery, the latest being the Keystone pipeline project and canceling of EPA standards. One response I got on a Facebook post was what looked to be a rather cynical request to explain why humans were to blame for the "Little Ice Age" (LIA).
This is a rather tedious chapter but may be of interest to those interested in traditional funeral practices of native Hawaiians. This is a good example of Twain padding his chapters (my opinion).
Earlier today I had the desire to play some old Donovan music. I have an lp of his. I looked up some of the tunes on Wikipedia and found that the tune Lalena was actually named for Lotte Lenya, the singer/actress famous for her role in Kurt Weill's The Three Penny Opera, among other roles. I wonder how many of you out there have heard of it or him. Once upon a time Bobby Darin had a hit with a tune from The Three Penny Opera, Mack the Knife. But then who now remembers Bobby Darin.
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This chapter explores the local politics of the Hawaiians. We also learn that one can pray their enemy to death. Native Hawaiians adapt New England clothing to their own needs. Mark provides a listing of the political heirarchy.
Sketches New and Old is the fifth book in the Oxford Mark Twain collection, published in 1875. It contains material written from between 1863 and 1875 some of which can also be found in a book Twain did not favor, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches. This includes the title sketch "in English. Then in French. Then clawed back into civilized language once more by patient, unremunerated toil". I, as SLCLemens in Second Life, have recorded readings from this book, produced slide shows of same and published them on YouTube or other service.
GENTLEMEN: I am glad, indeed, to assist in welcoming the distinguished guest of this occasion to a city whose fame as an insurance center has extended to all lands, and given us the name of being a quadruple band of brothers working sweetly hand in hand—the Colt's Arms Company making the destruction of our race easy and convenient, our life insurance citizens paying for the victims when they pass away, Mr. Batterson perpetuating their memory with his stately monuments, and our fire-insurance comrades taking care of their hereafter.