| Sunday Morning Off-Topic: Mark Twain and Mothers Day Edition! | | 2008-05-11 05:00:48 | |
It's Sunday Morning, that means it's time for a little off-topic reading. I've arbitrarily decided that until football season beings, Sunday's will be where we take a part of our day and read some examples of fantastic writing. This week's off-topic features the King of American Writing, Mark Twain. This piece, "On the Decay of the Art of Lying", was submitted to a writing contest for a 30 dollar cash prize. It did not win. But it's a fantastic piece of satire, and worth a few moments of your Sunday.
Also, and please may Big Cat Country not be your reminder, but it's Mothers Day today. This website and my passion for football wouldn't exist were it not for my Mother's persistence. I may not understand her obsession with Oakland's Rob Ryan but she introduced me to football. So on this day of days, I like to say thanks!
Mark Twain, below the fold:
Mark Twain: On the Decay of the Art of Lying
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| Mark Twain’s Heidelberg | | 2008-04-16 17:49:28 | | “One thinks Heidelberg by day – with its surroundings – is the last possibility of the beautiful; but when he sees Heidelberg by night, a fallen Milky Way, with that glittering railway constellation pinned to the border, he requires time to consider upon the verdict.” Mark Twain wrote this ode to Heidelberg in his humorous [...] | | By: Travel Stories & Travel Information - StorySui | | |
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| Chasing the News: Mark Twain’s Inkwell to Blogger’s Slippers | | 2008-04-11 03:15:15 | | Museum Review : By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
WASHINGTON — Look through the glass walls of a television studio at the Newseum — the much-heralded $450 million museum created by, for and about news acolytes, news reporters, newshounds, newsreaders, news watchers, newsmakers and news advocates that opens on Friday — and you get an imposing view of the [...] | | By: ArticlesModern | | |
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| Mark Twain Quotes | | 2008-03-02 15:12:00 | | Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain (1835 - 1910). Twain is considered the greatest humorist of 19th Century American literature. His novels and stories about the Mississippi River: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1894) are still popular with modern readers.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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| Funny Golf Quotes - Mark Twain | | 2007-06-07 17:20:00 | | “I've been studying the game of golf pretty considerably. I guess I understand now how it's played. It's this way. You take a small ball into a big field and you try to hit it – the ball not the field. At the first attempt you hit the field and not the ball. After that you probably hit the air...
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| Motivation - Rewards Quotes - Mark Twain | | 2007-05-17 16:56:00 | | “Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it – namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer
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