Thursday, 21 September 2017

How a Mark Twain Travel Book Turned Palestine into a Desert

quote [ The Innocents Abroad, the most famous 19th-century account of Palestine, is in the end an elaborate, sustained joke at the expense of the peoples and places of the Mediterranean. ]

Many years ago on the Mississippi riverboats
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[by ScoobySnacks@3:34amGMT]

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HoZay said @ 8:36am GMT on 21st Sep
And then Mark Twain turned the US into a land of ignorant, violent hicks.
If only he had used his powers for good.
Fish said @ 10:42am GMT on 22nd Sep
How're those banjo lessons coming along?

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