Thursday, May 6, 2010

Kalam by Mark Twain

"We are all ignorant,
just about different things."

Howard Zinn about Mark Twain: "Everybody learns about Mark Twain as the author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, but when we go to school, we don’t learn about Mark Twain as the vice president of the Anti-Imperialist League.

We aren’t told that Mark Twain denounced Theodore Roosevelt for approving the massacre in the Philippines."

7 comments:

Mohamed Hanno said...

...and one thing leads to another ya mom....you should have known better ya bornagain... now you have more of those books to read.
When you previously mentioned the book to me, on the merit of the title only, I thought to myself that's a book I'd like to read but then your review (if we can call that) discouraged me. It seems that the author tackled the subject from a limited, politically-flavored, perspective.

nahoul said...

does this comment belong to this post??

Mohamed Hanno said...

LoL proves my heritage. Should we keep it here to confuse the rest of your readers or do you want me to move it?

nahoul said...

What readers???
Let's leave it here ya mastoul.
Adds mystery to the blog.

Anonymous said...

I object u calling Mo "mastoul".
hmmmm,word verification is houria.......

nahoul said...

That's a different Mo ya Anoush.
ha ha I'm the blog owner, no word verification for moi!!!

Anonymous said...

interesting!
shafey