/lit/ - Literature

I know he isn’t Melville, but his writing is very clever and he possessed a great sense of humor. You should read Innocents Abroad. He describes how he couldn’t find a bar of soap in the French hotel he was staying at, and speculated about what this might mean for French hygiene. Very funny stuff.

Which writers had best sense of humor?

i never see this guy discussed here. why?

>>16404001
>“Do you hear that, gentlemen? Do you hear him talk about bloodshed? So it’s blood you want, is it, you ravin’ desperado! You’d made up your mind to murder somebody this mornin’—I knowed it perfectly well. I’m the man, am I? It’s me you’re goin’ to murder, is it? But you can’t do it ’thout I get one chance first, you thievin’ black-hearted, white-livered son of a nigger! Draw your weepon!”

Twainfags are killing /lit/. There are 20 threads about Mark Twain.

The All-American Chad

>ALL men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle--keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate. If he, according to tradition, merely translated it from certain ancient and mysteriously-engraved plates of copper, which he declares he found under a stone, in an out-of-the-way locality, the work of translating was equally a miracle, for the same reason.

>The book seems to be merely a prosy detail of imaginary history, with the Old Testament for a model; followed by a tedious plagiarism of the New Testament. The author labored to give his words and phrases the quaint, old-fashioned sound and structure of our King James's translation of the Scriptures; and the result is a mongrel--half modern glibness, and half ancient simplicity and gravity. The latter is awkward and constrained; the former natural, but grotesque by the contrast. Whenever he found his speech growing too modern--which was about every sentence or two--he ladled in a few such Scriptural phrases as "exceeding sore," "and it came to pass," etc., and made things satisfactory again. "And it came to pass" was his pet. If he had left that out, his Bible would have been only a pamphlet.

Mark Twain, Roughing It

>wrote one of the first anti-racism novels
>promoted Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem
>shat on Richard Wagner for being a racist piece of shit
>practically an anti-fascist
>contender for the greatest American author of all time
fascists BTFO

How was he so based?