Nowadays, we usually take in written language by reading it silently. This was not always the case. For thousands of years after the invention of writing, texts were normally decoded by reading aloud: a considerable help in puzzling out the meaning of a continuous scribble without punctuation, even without spaces between the words. Indeed, the […]| Bondwine Books
Mark Twain? John W. Casto? Maturin M. Ballou? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Mark Twain traveled widely, and he wrote about his experiences in the books “The Innocents Abroad” and “Following the Equator”. Twain believed that travel broadened the mind and reduced prejudices. Would you please help me to find a quotation in which he … Continue reading "Quote Origin: Travel Is Fatal To Prejudice, Bigotry and Narrow-Mindedness"| Quote Investigator®
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If you’ve ever wandered through Magic Kingdom, you’ve likely passed through a world shaped by Mark Twain’s imagination at Tom Sawyer Island. Author Samuel Clemens wrote under the unique pen name and crafted stories that have sparked both controversy and nostalgia. While Disney’s Tom Sawyer Island is no more, there are still plenty of places... The post Travel Bucket List Sites Inspired By Mark Twain appeared first on Albion Gould.| Albion Gould
If Mark Twain were alive today, he would certainly have written a novel about Donald Trump. After all, his 1873 novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, distinctly caught a nineteenth-century versio…| Vox Populi
REGULAR READERS, BLESS ’EM, ARE FAMILIAR with my rantings about Artificial Intelligence, its immense energy gobbling, its vast data scrapings, and its hallucinations. Today let’s celebrate an…| Simanaitis Says
I BELIEVE ANDY BOROWITZ IS the preeminent political satirist of our time. As I noted in “The Best of Lines,” he has “an amazing way of condensing his satirical news stories into four or five concis…| Simanaitis Says
After reading ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’, I thought I’ll read another Mark Twain. I decided to read ‘Life on the Mississippi’. The book is roughly divided in…| Vishy's Blog
Have you played Monopoly? The boardgame was designed to teach us about rents. Some economists say if we took rents seriously we could solve many problems.| www.abc.net.au
I had an office friend who used to sit in the food court at lunch time, alone, reading a book, while having his lunch. Once I went and sat with him and chitchatted with him and disturbed his tranqu…| Vishy's Blog
