6/22/2023 0 Comments Twain letters from the earth![]() ![]() It consists - utterly and entirely - of diversions which he cares next to nothing about, here in the earth, yet is quite sure he will like them in heaven. ![]() ![]() I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values. ![]() His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water! has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race - and of ours - sexual intercourse!.When he is at his very, very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. At His feet stood three colossal figures, diminished to extinction, almost, by contrast - archangels - their heads level with His ankle-bone. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. ![]()
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