Boy. Don't make me...

How could I make you? I'm older, yes. But not that much older.

Hey, I'm not saying Twain wasn't a great writer or an influential one.


On one hand you have a former National Gaurdsman, Senator, he desegregated the armed forces, passed executive orders to forbid racial discrimination in Federal employment, dropped the bomb (ending WWII), and part of one of the most famous "lost then won" elections of all time.

On the other hand we have a gentleman who wrote stories...

:hmmm:

I tried reading some Twain last year. Just couldn't get into it.

And is considered by many (all over the world) to be the last man of letters the US has produced in it's short history. Your left-handed compliment is way off-base here. Mark Twain was and remains an American treasure...

And you call yourself a goddamned would-be writer. Hang your fucking head in shame, scribbler...you know not of what you speak.

Easy. I said "I couldn't get into it". I didn't say "Twain's not good". I'm assuming it had to do with the mindset I was in at the time; I wasn't in a place where 19th century literature really seemed thrilling. I wouldn't have found H.G. Wells interesting at that juncture, either. So I read something else.

And fuck you, frankly. Who the hell are you to make value judgements on me or anybody else?

True. But it's like voting for Joe Montana or Hank Williams Sr. over Patton...

And right back at you, slick. I can spot a Twain-hater from a fucking mile away. Go back to moaning about your ex-wife--it's what you do best. I will say that reading your whiney posts gives me a new appreciation of Chiefs4Me, though...

Uhh. Okay. If that's what you want to think. Makes no difference to me.

He doesn't write complicated, out there, sci-fi, war of the worlds type of stuff.

Good. Then we can assume you'll shut your fucking mouth about it.

Exactly. It just depends on your area of interest. I thought they should have kept it with sport figures myself. Why throw in authors, actors and politicians?

I mean, he's not as good as Stephen King or....OH! Those Harry Potter books....or.....um.... :hmmm:

He also didn't write "How Becky Thatcher Got Her Groove On"...