Pudd'nhead WilsonMark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
Pudd'nhead Wilson
by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
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…up an inexpensive server at DigitalOcean (etc) and just reference stuff from a medium post if that's where I had an audience I wanted to share it with. Aside from that, "showing Huckleberry Finn and Pudd'nhead Wilson as anti-racist works" is probably a worthwhile and necessary thing right now, and easy to do. Anyone who's read Twain knows he deliberately exposed the ignorance of racism and cruelty of slavery but apparently…
on “Ask HN: Where to publish a critical work with potentially offensive content” ↗…fiction, humour etc. I have been pushing around writing a piece that might end up being quite long on Mark Twain and Racism, as it pertains to Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, and Pudd'nhead Wilson. And of course in writing this there are some well known racial slurs (and some antiquated, unfamiliar ones) that will have to be quoted and referred to, which I expect would probably end up getting…
on “Ask HN: Where to publish a critical work with potentially offensive content” ↗“Put all your eggs in the one basket and — WATCH THAT BASKET.” - Mark Twain, from Pudd’nhead Wilson
on “Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should” ↗…Pullman Strike case, once successfully and once unsuccessfully; helped organize the Populist Party; successfully defended Big Bill Haywood, Moyer, and Pettibone; published his first book. Twain: wrote Pudd’nhead Wilson, The Mysterious Stranger, Letters from the Earth, his autobiography, and a vicious literary criticism of the Leatherstocking series that’s better reading than the Leatherstocking series itself; did a…
on “Winning Isn't Normal” ↗…his heavy satchel of miscellaneous plunder, and slept the sleep of the unjust, which is serener and sounder than the other kind, as we know by the hanging-eve history of a million rascals." Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, end of Chapter XV.
on “Tesla employee of nearly 5 years was sacked over the phone while on vacation” ↗According to Mark Twain in Pudd'nhead Wilson the 1850s was a time when 'The people took more pride in the duel than in all the other events put together, perhaps.'
on “So, you’ve been challenged to a duel. What are the rules? (2016)” ↗This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
on “CERN levels up with new superconducting karts” ↗