MARK TWAIN -- Writing a Letter While Relaxing in Bed
Here's the man behind TOM SAWYER and HUCKLEBERRY FINN -- right down to the veins in his hands and a rumpled night-shirt....AND in true 3-D if you know how to view it.
If Mark Twain wrote TODAY what he wrote back THEN, not a publisher would touch him with a ten-foot pole.
I happen to like what he wrote....in any time or place. And that includes his rants and writings against American Imperialism.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
Looks great in 3-D. Have fun free-viewing one of the greatest writers of the age, or if you are a flickr Anaglyph Wiz......"Conversion or Bust" as they say.
Available "window light" image by a photographer unknown to me.
From an original gelatin silver print stereoview in the Okinawa_Soba Collection
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DCI Photography (47 months ago | reply)
Great photo of a great writer.
If you have never read his essays "Letters from the Earth", get a copy and enjoy his take on human existence
Okinawa Soba (47 months ago | reply)
DCI, on your recommendation, I will do just that. Thanks.
W10 (47 months ago | reply)
I tend more toward reading works by authors considered politically incorrect nowadays - just to get my own back maybe...
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Okinawa Soba (47 months ago | reply)
W10 -- Every time I turn on the news, and there is an "Honor Killing" of a woman by an "immigrant Muslim" living in a "Western Country" whose laws strictly prohibit such religious or culturally driven homicides, my father will turn to me, and in a tongue-in-cheek manner say something like, ".....Please don't say anything against these killings. We mustn't be Politically Incorrect. We must be good Liberals and respect all of these immigrants who come from depraved cultures to live in our Democracies, without the slightest respect for, or understanding of our laws, and the Spirit of individual Freedom of Choice.....".
All of which has nothing to do directly with Mark Twain and his books being pulled from Library shelves, but it's amazing what countries can do while censoring their own past, while being so "Politically Correct" about other things that warrant even MORE scrutiny from its own citizens RIGHT NOW.
I have posted several photos of Child Prostitutes of the past here on my photostream, and many of them get "faved". However, that does not constitute an endorsement of Child Prostitution, either then or now....and the posts remain for all to see.
However, if I posted a page from Mark Twain's HUCKLEBERRY FINN from the same era as the child prostitutes, flickr censors might very well delete it -- unless I guard it with an appropriate SAFE FILTER !!!
Go figure.
jackie ramo (47 months ago | reply)
Political Correctness has run amok for sure. Bill Mayer being a victim.
We still laugh about the Mayor's assistant in I think Washington DC getting fired for saying the word niggardly, which is a Swedish word and nothing to do with black america, meaning stingy. Even when this was explained they would not give him his job back. Crazy for sure.
Mr. Twain reflected the beliefs of his time. They should be studied so we understand better the plight of the American Black not hidden so that future generations forget or don't understand.
Okinawa Soba (47 months ago | reply)
Hi Jackie -- From the Web: "......The Barnhard Dictionary of Etymology traces the origins of "niggardly" to the 1300s and the words nig and nigon, meaning miser, in Middle English. It also notes possible earlier origins in languages including Old Icelandic, Old English and Middle High German. There is no mention of any racial connotation....."
One of these days I will be thrown off Flick for using the the word JAPAN. Some politically correct moron will demand my departure by noting that the word JAPAN contains the racial slur JAP, and I will be out the door !!!
PS. During the time of my pictures, "JAP" was a friendly moniker in the same basket with "YANKS", "BRITS" and what have you for the many allies of Japan -- all used with punch-fun friendliness and affection, with not the slightest bit of negative connotation attached to it.
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only1tanuki (47 months ago | reply)
I've read "Letters From The Earth" and really enjoyed it. One segment even refers to Japan (and I had to search it to make sure I didn't misquote it). He writes about the Adam, Eve and the Apple story and then goes on to say "A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to be a missionary, and goes to the innocent savage and to the civilized Japanese, and soils their minds. Whereupon they adopt immodesty, they conceal their bodies, they stop bathing naked together." So yes, no publisher would likely print that nowadays. (^_^)
jackie ramo (47 months ago | reply)
The problem with our societies is it only takes one person to be 'offended' Never mind the thousands who are not.
Icelandic ... Swedish... Eric the Red was Swedish wasn't he, or was it his son Lucky who washed up on Icelands shores. Personally I find the term 'found' insulting. As far as I know these countries weren't lost to begin with. Here the war over our two 'founding' nations leaves out the nation that was here already....
Okinawa Soba (47 months ago | reply)
All I know is, Canada got the better half of Niagara Falls.
josefnovak33 (47 months ago | reply)
For the first time I have read The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn when I was 9 and after this book were the other "stories for boys" boring. For me is M. T. the best american writer. I have heard that his books are altered or banned in the name of political correctness and I can´t believe it. It reminds me on my youth in communism.
Okinawa Soba (47 months ago | reply)
Yes, his books are altered and banned in some/many libraries today. But they still let Children have Bibles.
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W10 (47 months ago | reply)
"Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them." --Mark Twain
Okinawa Soba (47 months ago | reply)
W10 -- Man invents all, and then attributes his inventions to his "God", and then makes others conform to the "God" he invented -- under pain of death. It sounds like a Hollywood movie.
W10 (47 months ago | reply)
Such invention is especially apparent among followers of Abrahamite cults...
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David C. Foster (47 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Veterans of the American Civil War, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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