About Twain

There is a famous picture of Mark Twain on the deck of a ship, looking at the water, contemplating, looking dapper in his cap. I wish I had been on that ship with him as he returned from Bermuda shortly before he died on April 21, 1910. I would have been privileged to hear his final remarks on life. Twain’s increasingly dark view of humanity would have reached the tipping point with the Guns of August. The butchery of World War I would have destroyed what little faith he had left in humanity. He lived to the return of Haley’s Comet and no more. Perhaps he hit it just right.