#SamuelClemens

[rarebookcellar]

Just listed! True 1st issue of Mark Twain’s ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Item #162931 #marktwain #huckleberryfinn #adventuresofhuckleberryfinn #samuelclemens #bookcollector #bookcollection #antiquarian #antiquarianbook #antiquarianbooks #bookshelf #bookporn  #bibliophile  #coolbooks #rarebook #rarebooks  #beautifulbook #beautifulbooks #firstedition #personallibrary #rarebookcellar #bookseller #bookcollecting #oldbooks #rarebooksofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CfEU9O4r3Ej/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[surinco]

Mark Twain

"I do not fear death. I have been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born. I have not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." - Mark Twain.

[astoriaqueensfreemason]

#advancemasonictemple #freemason #freemasonry #masonic #truth #famousmasons #masonichistory #quotes #masonicquotes #samuelclemens #marktwain #marktwainquotes (at Advance Masonic Temple) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpA1Z3MuVzJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[raurquiz]

#happybirthday #jerryhardin #actor #radue #startrek #thenexgeneration #whentheboughbreaks #samuelclemens #timesarrow #neria #voyager #emanations #roots #blaze #islandprey #murderofinocence #extremedating #cujo #filthyrich #thelastlullaby #ghostsofmississippi #heartland #thexfiles #luckyluke #startrek56 @startrekonpplus https://www.instagram.com/p/ClMARxSOvhm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[theeversocelebratedmarktwain]

I Close at the End

Here we are, at the end. This semester has honestly whipped me. But I have learned so much. 

Mark Twain was a lot of things. He was so much more than one person. In fact, it is my personal opinion that he was one body and two people. 

Samuel Clemens was a poor boy that struggled for money most of his life, fell in love with the right woman, had a family and prioritized them, and struggled with some severe mental health issues that were not diagnosed at his time. Samuel Clemens was the one to spend all of the money. All of the savings, all of the earnings, and to hell with the logistics. It started out as a shock in ability and turned into a flashy lights show that he needed an entire nation to pay admission to every night. Mark was a man of logic. He received an honorary doctorate and approached most topics from a progressive’s point of view. Mark Twain recognized his adversity of rising from the poor while also acknowledging all his adversity aside, that none of his problems ever came from the color of his skin. Twain wrote books about real world issues and morals. He did this in order to not only criticize the world on their morals, but to also encourage them to learn and do better. Mark Twain was the mirror that the world needed in order to see more clearly. 

While I will continue my research on my theory of two men in one body, I also acknowledge the sadness that this means. If my logic is right, Samuel Clemens died when he lost his sweet Libby. He had already lost his favorite daughter, was to lose the next daughter in such a violent graphic manner. But when Libby died, a part of his soul went with her. Before he buried the last family member, Samuel Clemens was long gone in a spiritual oasis, leaving only Mark Twain for the world. While Mark Twain is large enough in his own entirety for a world. Both men lean on each other for dependence. Their coexisting relationship between the two equalize each other in the most important way.

So here is for Mark Twain. A man of two souls, a writer and a lover-both heavy enough with mistakes, regrets, and complexities for a nation to go another 200 years analyzing you. It was excellent getting to know you, and I wish both of your souls peace. 

[thecraggus]

#StarTrekTNG S6E01 - Time's Arrow, Part II ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It's almost a case of never the Twain as the crew of the Enterprise, stuck in 19th Century San Francisco must locate Data, attempt to prevent his decapitation and stop the sinister Devidians from interfering with history. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Star Trek continues playing #DoctorWho as the crew bumble around the past trying to be inconspicuous and avoid messing up the timeline while hunting aliens who are feeding off the life force of terminally ill humans. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It's still a frothy costume dramedy with plenty of hi-jinks even if the new HD transfer is particularly unsympathetic to the use of stunt doubles, particularly "Data" driving the getaway carriage. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It's resolved in a suitably wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey way and, as of this moment, Data becomes an old head on young shoulders as his noggin becomes permanently 500 years older than the rest of him. ⭐⭐⭐ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #StarTrek #TheNextGeneration #timesarrowpart2 #CraggusTrekTrekPhaseII #StarTrekTheNextGeneration #samuelclemens #guinan #whoopigoldberg #sanfrancisco #brentspiner https://www.instagram.com/p/B5qvbbHlua7/?igshid=1kf87ordf7sti

[oldenglishpoetry]

Saint Joan's Day today. Here's a unique one from the shelf. Will be posting more of her today. #marktwain #samuelclemens #joanofarc #novels #may25 #saintjoansday #americanauthors #frenchhistory #saintjoan #joanofarc #saintjoanofarc #americanliterature #americannovels #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #novels #classicnovels @ignatius_press #ignatiuspress #bookshelf #books #classics #frenchheroine #frenchsaints #france #catholicsaints (at Nashville, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx379vGJZVx/?igshid=lq65xgw57x32

[blindeyemagi]

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. Mark Twain #blindeyemagi #bizarre #magic #skull #planchette #death #reflection #marktwain #literaryquote #samuelclemens #afterlife #spirit #haunted #ghost #paranormal #oddities #doyoubelieveinmagic https://www.instagram.com/p/Buabw9nHnJ0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=109wgm363bef4

[vocalinist]

#happybirthdayjohnlennon you done your #levelbest #marktwain #samuelclemens #NewMusicAlert #imagine #sharingalltheworld #livinglifeinpeace #iwonderifyoucan #banjolele #fiddle #slideguitar #singing #bass #drums #harmonica #oldtimey #folkrock #countryrock #johnlennon https://www.instagram.com/p/CU02351JDpm/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ericarmusik]

A shot of my finished portrait of Mark Twain. Charcoal on paper, 18 x 24” 2021. Available for purchase. #marktwain #marktwainquote #marktwainquotes #samuelclemens #ericarmusik #famousauthors #americanauthors #charcoalpencil #charcoalportrait #artistportrait #artistportraits #artistdrawing #artisticportrait #artisticdrawing #artistic_share #artistsoninstagram #artistsofinstagram #artiststowatch #collectart #artistoninstagram #artistsupportartists #artistsofig #artistslife #traditionalart #traditionalartist #traditionalartwork #americanheritage #americantraditional #portraitoftheday #portraitofanartist https://www.instagram.com/p/CQlqpvfgghO/?utm_medium=tumblr

[joshof13thfloor]

#stupidpeople #MarkTwain #SamuelClemens

[nowheremag]

RETROSCOPE! Mark Twain leaves Virginia City behind for the vast volcanic lakes of Kilauea: “Some of the streams preferred to mingle together in a tangle of fantastic circles, and then they looked something like the confusion of ropes one sees on a ship’s deck when she had just taken in sail and dropped anchor—provided one can imagine those ropes on fire.…”⁣ ⁣ Intro by contributing editor @alanbernheimer .⁣ ⁣ Photo: Mandy Beerly⁣ ⁣ Infernal regions, excellent strawberries, weary wastes, opera-glasses, cataracts of fire, the Sandwich Islands & gouts of blood and snow flakes.⁣ ⁣ Link in bio or direct at https://nowheremag.com/2020/12/mark-twains-letters-from-hawaii/ ⁣ ⁣ #endupnowhere #exploremore #travelstories #travel #traveling #travellit #travelliterature #retroscope #hawaii #sandwichislands #marktwain #samuelclemens #volcano #volcanoes #volcanic #kilauea #thegroundishotlava #history #armchairtravel #homeexplorersclub #historicliterature #vintageliterature #vintagelit https://www.instagram.com/p/CJHlqTpFh9x/?igshid=7mjofpb6wuq9

[raurquiz]

#happybirthday #jerryhardin #actor #samuelclemens #startrek #thenextgeneration #timesarrow #radue #whentheboughbreaks #drneria #voyager #emanations #bigtroubleinlittlechina #thexfiles #thefirm #cujo #MurderSheWrote #CrossingJordan #blaze #thehotspot #startrek57 @TrekCore

[theeversocelebratedmarktwain]

A [Mysterious Stranger] to the World: The Devil, Mark Twain, or just a Stranger?

The next week of reading we covered one of Mark Twain’s last works Number 44, The Mysterious Stranger. There is a lot of themes, coverage, and speculation over this book. One of the largest being the controversy of there being two different versions under the same title. The one where the plot of the story follows a young Satan in a town of Eseldorf is the work written by Twain. Oddly enough, another student and I read other version written where it followed some priests in a rural town and some young children playing in the forrest. This is where they meet a stranger, one very mysterious, and really informs them he is Satan and proves to the children he is who he says he is. The class talked a little about the comparison of both of these stories. The biggest argument to be made was the story that the other student and I had read seemed more like Twain’s voice than the original story by Twain. It was very odd to diagnose and understand the likeliness of how a writer mimicked Twain’s personal writing style so perfectly.

As for Twain’s actual story of the Number 44, The Mysterious Stranger was one of the last works for Twain to have written. A lot of people find this confusing, alarming, and concerning considering the satanic, dark nature of the story. Twain’s authentic story still follows a young Satan amongst humans. And to add, this is not the first or only work for Twain to refer to a stranger in his works. The character of a stranger strips the structure of a human to understand before analyzing his actions. Twain previously mentions a stranger in his Autobiographical in Innocents Abroad, in a character of David in Pudd’nhead Wilson, and an angel in “War Prayer”. With a motif as a stranger in Twain’s works, critics wonder the relevance. Did Mark Twain see himself as the mysterious stranger to America? Giving advice, removed from the masses, speaking prophecy where the surroundings felt like s sisyphus (metaphor for the experience of ‘the absurd’). Is this how Twain seen America? Absurd?

The novel ends with the implicit themes and dilemmas of Divided Self and Nature vs. Nurture. Both of these factors are huge conversation pieces in the study of Psychology and can be very easily applied when studying the human body of Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain. The duality of man is already complex as it is with the questions of Psychology- never mind the duty to analyze THE Mark Twain.

[amlitlover]

Mark Twain’s A Tramp Abroad

Left out of the book, this story: "What offering could be so meet as that of a white elephant? My position in the Indian civil service was such that I was deemed peculiarly worthy of the honor of conveying the present to her Majesty.” https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story/the-stolen-white-elephant

[bigdaddyidaho]

#MikeRyan in his goofy days at #samuelclemens in 1985 https://www.instagram.com/p/CEFv-LjDVXkoqrP5r5Rp5I0jhNgy0r2w3HZRLg0/?igshid=b6um8d6fpfg5