Sundays with Mark Twain — (1890-1893, Including Excerpts from "The American Claimant")
Sundays with Mark Twain #93
1890
1890.1.674) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: When one ... considers that all earthly figures fail to typify the Czar’s government, and that one must descend into hell to find its counterpart, one turns hopefully to your statement of the objects of the several liberation-parties—and is disappointed. Apparently none of them can bear to think of losing the present hell entirely, they merely want the temperature cooled down a little.
Scripture: And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. -- Matthew 25:46
Work; Date: Unpublished letter on the Czar of Russia; 1890
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3196/3196-h/3196-h.htm
1891
1891.1.675) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: We are out of kings this week, but one will be along soon--possibly his Satanic Majesty of Russia. There’s a colossus for you! A mysterious and terrible form that towers up into unsearchable space and casts a shadow across the universe like a planet in eclipse.
Scripture: And we know that we are of God, and the whole wold lieth in wickedness. -- 1 John 5:19
Work; Date: Aix-les-Bains; November 8, 1891
Source: http://www.twainquotes.com/Travel1891/Nov1891.html
1891.2.676) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: At a later time--a time within all old men’s memories--the Deity was otherwise engaged. He was dreaming his eternities away on his great white throne, steeped in the soft bliss of hymns of praise wafted aloft without ceasing from choirs of ransomed souls, Presbyterians and the rest.
Scripture: And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. -- Revelation 20:11
Work; Date: Aix-les-Bains; November 8, 1891
Source: http://www.twainquotes.com/Travel1891/Nov1891.html
1891.3.677,678) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: It appeared to be a rational enough game for him, and if I could have borrowed his oar I would have staid, but I didn’t see where the entertainment of the others came in. This was because I saw without perceiving and observed without understanding. For the widow and the orphan and the others do win money there.
Scripture: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. -- Mark 4:12
Scripture: Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. -- James 1:27
Work; Date: Aix-les-Bains; November 8, 1891
Source: http://www.twainquotes.com/Travel1891/Nov1891.html
1891.4.679) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: You go to Annecy in an hour by rail, through a garden land that has not had its equal for beauty, perhaps, since Eden;
Scripture: And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; -- Genesis 2:8
Scripture: Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; -- Ezekiel 28:13
Work; Date: Aix-les-Bains; November 8, 1891
Source: http://www.twainquotes.com/Travel1891/Nov1891.html
1891.5.680) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: My splendid Kipling himself hasn’t a more burnt-in, hard-baked, and unforgettable familiarity with that death-on-the-pale-horse-with-hell-following-after, which is a raw soldier’s first fortnight in the field...
Scripture: And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. -- Revelation 6:8
Work; Date: Letter to an unknown recipient; 1891
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3196/3196-h/3196-h.htm
1891.6.681) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: And I watched over one dear project of mine for years, spent a fortune on it, and failed to make it go—and the history of that would make a large book in which a million men would see themselves as in a mirror; and they would testify and say, Verily, this is not imagination; this fellow has been there—and after would cast dust upon their heads, cursing and blaspheming.
Scripture: And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. -- Revelation 18:19
Work; Date: Letter to an unknown recipient; 1891
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3196/3196-h/3196-h.htm
1891.7.682) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: I was proposing to acknowledge the receipt of the play and the little book per phonograph, so that you could see that the instrument is good enough for mere letter-writing; then I meant to add the fact that you can’t write literature with it, because it hasn’t any ideas and it hasn’t any gift for elaboration, or smartness of talk, or vigor of action, or felicity of expression, but is just matter-of-fact, compressive, unornamental, and as grave and unsmiling as the devil.
Scripture: Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. -- Revelation 12:12
Work; Date: Letter to W. D. Howells; April 4, 1891
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3196/3196-h/3196-h.htm
1892
1892.1.683) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: While waiting in the reception room all by myself two men came in and began to talk. Politics, literature, religion? No, their ailments. There is no other subject here, apparently. Wherever two or three of these people are gathered together, there you have it, every time.
Scripture: For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. -- Matthew 18:20
Work; Date: AN AUSTRIAN HEALTH FACTORY (often retitled as “Marienbad--A Health Factory”); February 7, 1892
Source: http://www.twainquotes.com/Travel1891/Feb1892.html
THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT
1892.2.684) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: The thing as practiced by ignorant charlatans is unworthy of attention or respect—where there’s a dim light and a dark cabinet, and a parcel of sentimental gulls gathered together, with their faith and their shudders and their tears all ready, and one and the same fatty degeneration of protoplasm and humbug comes out and materializes himself into anybody you want, grandmother, grandchild, brother-in-law, Witch of Endor, John Milton, Siamese twins, Peter the Great, and all such frantic nonsense—no, that is all foolish and pitiful. But when a man that is competent brings the vast powers of science to bear, it’s a different matter, a totally different matter, you see.
Scripture: Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor. And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee. And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die? And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing. Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel. – I Samuel 28:7-11
Work; Date: The American Claimant, Chapter 3; 1892
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3179/3179-h/3179-h.htm
1892.3.685) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Tracy was a hero now, and exceedingly popular. Perhaps nobody had ever been quite so popular on that upper floor before. But if being discountenanced by these young fellows had been hard to bear, their lavish commendations and approval and hero-worship were harder still to endure. He felt degraded, but he did not allow himself to analyze the reasons why, too closely. He was content to satisfy himself with the suggestion that he looked upon himself as degraded by the public spectacle which he had made of himself, fighting on a tin roof, for the delectation of everybody a block or two around. But he wasn’t entirely satisfied with that explanation of it. Once he went a little too far and wrote in his diary that his case was worse than that of the prodigal son. He said the prodigal son merely fed swine, he didn’t have to chum with them. But he struck that out, and said “All men are equal. I will not disown my principles. These men are as good as I am.”
Scripture: And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. – Luke 15:15-20
Work; Date: The American Claimant, Chapter 13; 1892
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3179/3179-h/3179-h.htm
1892.4.686) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: “But Colonel!” implored Hawkins; “stop and think; don’t be rash; you know it’s the only chance we’ve got to get the money; and besides, the Bible itself says posterity to the fourth generation shall be punished for the sins and crimes committed by ancestors four generations back that hadn’t anything to do with them; and so it’s only fair to turn the rule around and make it work both ways.”
Scripture: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; – Exodus 20:5
Work; Date: The American Claimant, Chapter 19; 1892
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3179/3179-h/3179-h.htm
1892.5.687,688) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: The earl said to himself, “This spectre can eat apples, apparently. We shall find out, now, if that is a specialty. I think, myself, it’s a specialty. Apples, without doubt, constitute the spectral limit. It was the case with our first parents. No, I am wrong—at least only partly right. The line was drawn at apples, just as in the present case, but it was from the other direction.”
Scripture: And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. – Genesis 1:29
Scripture: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. – Genesis 2:17
Work; Date: The American Claimant, Chapter 19; 1892
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3179/3179-h/3179-h.htm
1892.6.689) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: He’ll put in his diary—they all keep diaries—he’ll put in his diary that she was miraculously uninteresting—dear, dear, but wasn’t she! I never saw the like—and yet looking as beautiful as Satan, too—and couldn’t seem to do anything but paw bread crumbs, and pick flowers to pieces, and look fidgety. And it isn’t any better here in the Hall of Audience. I’ve had enough; I’ll haul down my flag—the others may fight it out if they want to.
Scripture: Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. ... Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. ... Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. – Ezekiel 28:13,15,17
Work; Date: The American Claimant, Chapter 21; 1892
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3179/3179-h/3179-h.htm
1892.7.690,691) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: If I had the nerve, I would kill it. But that wouldn’t do any good. She loves it; she thinks it’s genuine and authentic. If she lost it she would grieve for it just as she would for a real person. And who’s to break it to the family! Not I—I’ll die first. Sellers is the best human being I ever knew and I wouldn’t any more think of—oh, dear, why it’ll break his heart when he finds it out. And Polly’s too. This comes of meddling with such infernal matters! But for this, the creature would still be roasting in Sheol where it belongs. How is it that these people don’t smell the brimstone? Sometimes I can’t come into the same room with him without nearly suffocating.
Scripture: And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. – Revelation 19:20
Scripture: But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. – Revelation 21:8
Work; Date: The American Claimant, Chapter 22; 1892
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3179/3179-h/3179-h.htm
1892.8.692) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: It rained forty days and forty nights. – Genesis
Scripture: And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. – Genesis 7:12
Work; Date: The American Claimant, APPENDIX. WEATHER FOR USE IN THIS BOOK. Selected from the Best Authorities; 1892
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3179/3179-h/3179-h.htmn)
1893
1893.1.693) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: I can’t believe I have done anything so ungrateful. If I have, pile coals of fire on my head, for I deserve it!
Scripture: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee. -- Proverbs 25:22
Work; Date: January 1, 1893 letter to Fred J. Hall
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3196/3196-h/3196-h.htm
1893.2.694) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: The Duke of Shoreditch wanted to take precedence, and sit at the head of the table, holding that he outranked a minister who represented merely a nation and not a monarch; but I stood for my rights, and refused to yield. In the gossip column I ranked all dukes not royal, and said so, and claimed precedence of this one. It couldn’t be settled, of course, struggle as we might and did, he finally (and injudiciously) trying to play birth and antiquity, and I “seeing” his Conqueror and “raising” him with Adam, whose direct posterity I was, as shown by my name, while he was of a collateral branch, as shown by his, and by his recent Norman origin;
Scripture: And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph, … Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech, Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan, Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God. -- Luke 3:23,24;36-38
Work; Date: The £1,000,000 Bank-Note; January, 1893
Source: http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/MilPou.shtml
1893.3.695) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: In all ways the ocean greyhound of to-day is imposing and impressive to one who carries in his head no ship-pictures of a recent date. In bulk, she comes near to rivaling the Ark; yet this monstrous mass of steel is driven five hundred miles through the waves in twenty-four hours.
Scripture: And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. -- Genesis 6:15
Work; Date: About All Kinds of Ships; 1893
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=rXZaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA461&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
1893.4.696) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: “Built of--”
“Wood.”
“What kind?”
“Shittim and gopher.”
Scripture: And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. -- Genesis 6:13,14
Work; Date: About All Kinds of Ships; 1893
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=rXZaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA461&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
1893.5.697-699) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: “Passengers?”
“Eight.”
“Sex?”
“Half male, the others female.”
“Ages?”
“From a hundred years up.”
“Up to where?”
“Six hundred.”
Scripture: And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ... But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee. -- Genesis 6:10,18
Scripture: And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. -- Genesis 5:32
Scripture: And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. -- Genesis 7:6
Work; Date: About All Kinds of Ships; 1893
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=rXZaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA461&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
1893.6.700) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: “Cargo?”
“Animals.”
“Kind?”
“All kinds.”
“Wild or tame?”
“Mainly wild.”
“Foreign, or domestic?”
“Mainly foreign.”
“Principal wild ones?”
“Megatherium, elephant, rhinocerous, lion, tiger, wolf, snakes--all the wild things of all climes--two of each.”
Scripture: Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. -- Genesis 7:8,9
Work; Date: About All Kinds of Ships; 1893
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=rXZaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA461&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
1893.7.701,702) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: “How long are you expecting your voyage to last?”
“Eleven or twelve months.”
Scripture: In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. -- Genesis 7:11
Scripture: And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee. -- Genesis 8:13-16
Work; Date: About All Kinds of Ships; 1893
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=rXZaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA461&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
1893.8.703) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Indeed? Then may I ask what the animals are for?”
“Just to breed others from.”
“Others? Is it possible that you haven’t enough?”
“For the present needs of civilization, yes; but the rest are going to be drowned in a flood, and these are to renew the supply.”
“A flood?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Are you sure of that?”
“Perfectly sure. It is going to rain forty days and forty nights.”
Scripture: And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. -- Genesis 7:17
Work; Date: About All Kinds of Ships; 1893
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=rXZaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA461&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
1893.9.704,705) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Now when I was studying for the ministry there were two or three things that struck my attention particularly. At the first banquet mentioned in history that other prodigal son who came back from his travels was invited to stand up and have his say. They were all there, his brethren, David and Goliath, and—er, and if he had had such experience as I have had he would have waited until those other people got through talking. He got up and testified to all his failings. Now if he had waited before telling all about his riotous living until the others had spoken he might not have given himself away as he did, and I think that I would give myself away if I should go on. I think I’d better wait until the others hand in their testimony; then if it is necessary for me to make an explanation, I will get up and explain, and if I cannot do that, I’ll deny it happened.
Scripture: And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry. Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing. And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant. And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. -- Luke 15:13-30
Scripture: And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. ... And David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine. ... And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine. And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him. And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance. And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field. Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’S, and he will give you into our hands. And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. -- 1 Samuel 17:4,32,40-49
Work; Date: Speech at the Lotos Club Dinner for Mark Twain; November 11, 1893
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3188/3188-h/3188-h.htm#link2H_4_0083
1893.10.706) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: The naming goes recklessly on, in spite of anything I can do. I had a very good name for the estate, and it was musical and pretty – GARDEN-OF-EDEN.
Scripture: And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. ... And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. -- Genesis 2:8,15
Work; Date: Extracts from Adam’s Diary; 1893
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1892/1892.txt
183.11.707) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: She told me she was made out of a rib taken from my body. This is at least doubtful, if not more than that. I have not missed any rib.
Scripture: And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. -- Genesis 2:21-23
Work; Date: Extracts from Adam’s Diary; 1893
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1892/1892.txt
1893.12.708) Quote, Reference, or Allusion:
Tuesday
She has taken up with a snake now. The other animals are glad, for she was always experimenting with them and bothering them; and I am glad, because the snake talks, and this enables me to get a rest.
Friday
She says the snake advises her to try the fruit of that tree, and says the result will be a great and fine and noble education. I told her there would be another result, too--it would introduce death into the world. That was a mistake--it had been better to keep the remark to myself; it only gave her an idea--she could save the sick buzzard, and furnish fresh meat to the despondent lions and tigers. I advised her to keep away from the tree. She said she wouldn’t. I foresee trouble. Will emigrate.
Scripture: Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. -- Genesis 3:1-6
Work; Date: Extracts from Adam’s Diary; 1893
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1892/1892.txt
1893.13.709) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: She came curtained in boughs and bunches of leaves, and when I asked her what she meant by such nonsense, and snatched them away and threw them down, she tittered and blushed. I had never seen a person titter and blush before, and to me it seemed unbecoming and idiotic. She said I would soon know how it was myself. This was correct. Hungry as I was, I laid down the apple half eaten--certainly the best one I ever saw, considering the lateness of the season--and arrayed myself in the discarded boughs and branches, and then spoke to her with some severity and ordered her to go and get some more and not make such a spectacle of herself. She did it, and after this we crept down to where the wild-beast battle had been, and collected some skins, and I made her patch together a couple of suits proper for public occasions. They are uncomfortable, it is true, but stylish, and that is the main point about clothes.
Scripture: And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? – Genesis 3:7-11
Work; Date: Extracts from Adam’s Diary; 1893
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1892/1892.txt
1893.14.710) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: I find she is a good deal of a companion. I see I should be lonesome and depressed without her, now that I have lost my property. Another thing, she says it is ordered that we work for our living hereafter. She will be useful. I will superintend.
Scripture: And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. – Genesis 3:17-19
Work; Date: Extracts from Adam’s Diary; 1893
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1892/1892.txt
