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chickenscratching Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-05 12:21 PM
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" Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide....
...& those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink."
-mark t aka sammy c

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DemBones DemBones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-05 12:24 PM
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1. The old boy could be a party-pooper, couldn't he? nt
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-05 12:26 PM
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2. Sounds like the author was hung up on Dylan Thomas
Edited on Tue May-10-05 12:26 PM by Seabiscuit
who drank himself to death. They called it "dying of consumption".
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jukes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-05 12:48 PM
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3. i think some are misreading this.
clemens had a dry wit, was a devout atheist, & was merely making a wry comment on the futility of life.

he wd have been apsitively disgusted w/ today's "intelligent design" filth.
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chickenscratching Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-05 02:14 PM
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5. oh he has to be turning over in his grave as we speak
we could use someone like sammy c round these parts.
good man.
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-05 12:50 PM
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4. Ah, Twain.
The only way he could have been better would have been being more bitter than Beirce.
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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-05 02:43 PM
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6. Sounds about right. n/t
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-05 04:09 PM
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7. Twain is timeless.
One of my favorite essays is "The Awful German Language." You do need to be bi-lingual to really "get it." Funniest snarky shit I ever read!
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