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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Mark Twain, on India

... the land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth, and fabulous poverty, of splendor and rags, of palaces and hovels, of famine and pestilence, of genii and giants and aladdin lamps, of tigers and elephants, the cobra and the jungle, the country of a hundred nations and a hundred tongues, of a thousand religions and two million gods, cradle of the human race, birthplace of human speech, mother of history grandmother of legend, great-grandmother of tradition, whose yesterdays bear date with the mouldering antiquities of the rest of the nations- the sole country under the sun that is endowed with imperishable interest for alien prince and alien peasant, for lettered and ignorant, wise and fool, rich and poor, bond and free, the one land all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of all the rest if the globe combined.

Mark Twain

10 Comments:

Blogger TjandMark/AKA PearlandHawkeye said...

Sooo, I wasn't sure... was he impressed by India or not? Of course, I noticed that he didn't use his real name... maybe I even want to go to India. What did Rudyard Kipling have to say on the matter? mark

9:06 PM  
Blogger WONDERWOMAN said...

Well if he didn't use his real name what name did he use?
You had better want to go to India, because buddy, you're going.

9:13 PM  
Blogger Isabella said...

i could care less if i ever saw india
Lebanon, though, is another story

11:16 AM  
Blogger TjandMark/AKA PearlandHawkeye said...

Lebanon...... They have big cedars, right? Didn't Jesus go there? India, Shmindia. mark

9:01 PM  
Blogger TjandMark/AKA PearlandHawkeye said...

Time for another post, dearie.

8:23 PM  
Blogger TjandMark/AKA PearlandHawkeye said...

HEY!!! ANYBODY IN HERE?

7:40 PM  
Blogger TjandMark/AKA PearlandHawkeye said...

Enough already! I'll buy you a latte, just post. mark

9:44 PM  
Blogger TjandMark/AKA PearlandHawkeye said...

She must have danced herself into oblivion again. Tj

6:16 PM  
Blogger Elena said...

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10:06 AM  
Blogger WONDERWOMAN said...

you guys are so silly, I haven't had my laptop, cause I accidently dropped it so my friend is fixing it,but I will haveit soon

4:12 PM  

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