“ A boy's life is not all comedy; much of the tragic enters into it. ”
Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography (1906). copy citation
| Author | Mark Twain |
|---|---|
| Source | Chapters from My Autobiography |
| Topic | comedy life |
| Date | 1906 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19987/19987-h/19987-h.htm |
Context
“When he had been teaching me twice a day for three weeks I introduced a new gymnastic—one that he had never seen before—and so at last a compliment was wrung from him, a thing which I had been risking my life for days to achieve. He gathered me up and said mournfully: "Mr. Clemens, you can fall off a bicycle in more different ways than any person I ever saw before."
(1849.)
A boy's life is not all comedy; much of the tragic enters into it. The drunken tramp—mentioned in "Tom Sawyer" or "Huck Finn"—who was burned up in the village jail, lay upon my conscience a hundred nights afterward and filled them with hideous dreams—dreams in which I saw his appealing face as I had seen it in the pathetic reality, pressed against the window-bars, with the red hell glowing behind him—a”
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