/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.23294381]

Thoughts on Twain?

[Anonymous No.23294443]

The great American writer. He did more to shape American humor and folklore and culture than any other writer in America.

[Anonymous No.23294478]

>>23294443
>Humor
Hes underrated in that regard. He is actually a very funny person.

[Anonymous No.23294530]

He's a freemason, nuff said.

[Anonymous No.23294545]

>>23294381
Proto-Redditor anti-Christian getting cancelled by lefties for petty reasons.

[Anonymous No.23294578]

>>23294381
Never the Twain shall meet

[Anonymous No.23294579]

>>23294478
His sketch on chambermaids is hilarious.

[Anonymous No.23294880]

>>23294545
His jokes about religion were basically just hokum bullshit joking about greedy boisterous preachers and moralizing old ladies. He wrote a positive dramatization of Joan of Arc and the only time he really actively tore down a particular religion was Mormonism, which was already being picked apart and shit on not just by him but by literally everyone because it's fucking Mormonism.

[Anonymous No.23294895]

>>23294880
>which was already being picked apart and shit on not just by him but by literally everyone
as it should be

[Anonymous No.23296094]

>>23294381
I found his essay On The Art of Lying pretty disturbing. In high school, I enjoyed his work, but were I to return to it now, I don't know what I would think about it.

>>23294880
>just hokum bullshit joking about greedy boisterous preachers and moralizing old ladies
That's because that was the narrative of the subverts of the time. See H.L. Mencken, On Being an American. There is always an angle and always a narrative for that angle.

[Anonymous No.23296096]

>>23294880
>>23296094
Also, see A High-Toned Old Christian Woman by Wallace Stevens. That general arc of time had several subvert narratives running. The "hokum" was one of them.

[Anonymous No.23296110]

>>23294381
they dont even teach him in schools anymore