Author: MARK TWAIN
Title: The Devil's Race-Track
Description: University of California Press, 1980. Paperback. Pp: 385. Mark Twain explores the darker side of life in these little-known later writings. A number of stories and fragments dealing with his own misfortunes represent successive stages of work on a story of a disastrous sea voyage that he felt compelled to produce. His ship was to become trapped in the Devil's Race-Track, a region of eternally circling storms and fierce ocean currents. In some other selection, including "Passage from a Lecture, " he sees history as a treadmill of repeated events by which "nothing can happen that will not happen again. And again, and still again, forever." In still other words he conceives of a vast food-chain, a universal round of devourers who in their turn become victims, God and man included. In the bizarre "Three Thousand Years among the Microbes, " a germ who calls himself Huck lives in and feeds on the heavenly father in whom he has his being. Huck the microbe is thus in the Mississippi-like bloodstream of a cosmic Pap Finn. The tramps is likewise infecting that vaster Being whose body included the earth and the other "heavenly bodies.". ISBN: 9780520038936. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780520038936
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Title: The Devil's Race-Track
Description: University of California Press, 1980. Paperback. Pp: 385. Mark Twain explores the darker side of life in these little-known later writings. A number of stories and fragments dealing with his own misfortunes represent successive stages of work on a story of a disastrous sea voyage that he felt compelled to produce. His ship was to become trapped in the Devil's Race-Track, a region of eternally circling storms and fierce ocean currents. In some other selection, including "Passage from a Lecture, " he sees history as a treadmill of repeated events by which "nothing can happen that will not happen again. And again, and still again, forever." In still other words he conceives of a vast food-chain, a universal round of devourers who in their turn become victims, God and man included. In the bizarre "Three Thousand Years among the Microbes, " a germ who calls himself Huck lives in and feeds on the heavenly father in whom he has his being. Huck the microbe is thus in the Mississippi-like bloodstream of a cosmic Pap Finn. The tramps is likewise infecting that vaster Being whose body included the earth and the other "heavenly bodies.". ISBN: 9780520038936. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780520038936
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- Book number: 2110819
- Book number: 2110819
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