Thanksgiving Is Ruined |
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March 08, 2006
"Only one thing more and worse could happen . . . . . . and it happened." The above is the setup for the disastrous denouement described by Mark Twain in a section of writing that must have one of the coolest chapter titles ever written: My Exquisite Poem Goes to Smash The book is Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896). The narrator concludes: "Such things make a life of bitterness, and I do not wish to dwell upon them." |