“ I'm the man with a petrified heart and biler-iron bowels! The massacre of isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the destruction of nationalities the serious business of my life! ”
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi (1883). copy citation
| Author | Mark Twain |
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| Source | Life on the Mississippi |
| Topic | destruction pastime |
| Date | 1883 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/245/245-h/245-h.htm |
Context
“I put my hand on the sun's face and make it night in the earth; I bite a piece out of the moon and hurry the seasons; I shake myself and crumble the mountains! Contemplate me through leather—don't use the naked eye! I'm the man with a petrified heart and biler-iron bowels! The massacre of isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the destruction of nationalities the serious business of my life! The boundless vastness of the great American desert is my enclosed property, and I bury my dead on my own premises!' He jumped up and cracked his heels together three times before he lit (they cheered him again) , and as he come down he shouted out: 'Whoo-oop! bow your neck and spread, for the pet child of calamity's a-coming!'
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