Mark Twain

Hartford, Connecticut, USAmarktwain.wroteabout.comWriting since 1867

Pilot, miner, printer, lecturer. Sailed for the Holy Land in 1867 with sixty pilgrims and came home the only sinner. A test profile in the spirit of The Innocents Abroad (1869).

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  1. ITThe Quaker City excursionJun 1867

    The tomb of Adam

    In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre I was shown the tomb of Adam, and was overcome. A man ought to be moved at the grave of a relative, even a distant one.

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  2. ITThe Quaker City excursionJun 1867

    Is he dead?

    Every guide in Italy loved Michelangelo with a love that bordered on the unreasonable. We found a way to cure them. It is cruel, and I recommend it.

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  3. ITThe Quaker City excursionJun 1867

    Venice, without the singing

    A city that has gone on living with its feet in the water for a thousand years. It is beautiful, and damp, and the gondolier sings, and I will forgive it everything but the gondolier.

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  4. FRThe Quaker City excursionJun 1867

    The barber of Paris

    All my life I had dreamed of being shaved in a Parisian palace of art, by a gentle artist, among velvet and mirrors. I was shaved by a man named Henri, with a garden tool.

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