https://www.lelandquarterly.com/2009/04/mark-twains-eden/ Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:13:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://www.lelandquarterly.com/2009/04/mark-twains-eden/comment-page-1/#comment-13171 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:13:59 +0000 https://www.therowboat.com/?p=783#comment-13171 Val Kilmer is quite an old man today but he is still a great actor and handsome guy.`*”

]]> https://www.lelandquarterly.com/2009/04/mark-twains-eden/comment-page-1/#comment-3025 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:21:03 +0000 https://www.therowboat.com/?p=783#comment-3025 Nathan, that film is one of my favorites as well! The valentine tree? The creepy, creepy world-destroying scenes? I’ve never known anyone else who has seen it. And The Diaries of Adam and Eve is the gift I only give to people I really truly love. Glad you appreciate it too.

]]> https://www.lelandquarterly.com/2009/04/mark-twains-eden/comment-page-1/#comment-2949 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:36:41 +0000 https://www.therowboat.com/?p=783#comment-2949 The quotation from “The Diary of Adam and Eve” exemplifies how sentimentality in the fiction of the Victorian and Edwardian eras could use simple, direct means to achieve powerful impact in storytelling. Our culture has lost that. Now, too often our writers and filmmakers make use of the sentimental in a superficial and formulaic way to manipulate the emotions of a reader or filmgoer. I have probably read this passage by Twain fifty times in my life. It has always affected me strongly, and never more so than now.

]]> https://www.lelandquarterly.com/2009/04/mark-twains-eden/comment-page-1/#comment-2947 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:50:53 +0000 https://www.therowboat.com/?p=783#comment-2947 Not many are aware that while Mr. Clemens (Twain) “spared not his wit” on satirizing Christian Science, he actually witnessed first hand its real healing effect upon his family member, later writing very positive things about its founder Mary Baker Eddy and expressing extreme gratitude. Interesting to not that in his book “Christian Science” a satire – in each fictional case he creates, the patient is still healed by Christian Science, as if to say, while he pokes fun at it….he acknowledged that it was effective.

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