“And he’ll remember, with advantages.”
Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I have learned much about Mark Twain these past few years, and it strikes me that he was a pessimist to some degree. But what bothers me is how negative his view was of the good things in the world. He hated the Christian faith, it was beneath the surface.
Twain was a complicated man. His biography of Joan of Arc is quite celebratory of the Saint and Twain regarded it as the finest thing he ever wrote. His pessimism and despair were largely a product of the death of all but one of his kids. After the death of his beloved wife Livy in 1904 he gave up all hope. Like many comics, Twain had a predilection to depression.