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Trivial Pursuits => Arts & Entertainment => Topic started by: Paisley on August 23, 2003, 12:09:47 am

Title: See something that Twain saw
Post by: Paisley on August 23, 2003, 12:09:47 am

"I watched a Silver Swan (http://www.bowesmuseum.org.uk/collections/swanfacts.html) which had a living grace about his movements and a living intelligence in his eyes - watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as it he had been born in a morass instead of a jeweller's shop - watched him seize a silver giraffe from under the water and hold his head and go through all the customary and elaborate motions of swallowing it ...".
-- Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad

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Title: See something that Twain saw
Post by: slink on August 23, 2003, 12:38:56 am

And this is bound to be headed to sights...

Title: See something that Twain saw
Post by: beverly on August 23, 2003, 08:49:39 am

I think it works better when there is only one forum

Title: See something that Twain saw
Post by: jough on August 23, 2003, 10:47:22 am

Well, with just one forum things are a little constrained - at least with the multiple sections people have room to spread out, and I can't speak for the other mods, but I'm pretty lax about "on-topic-ness" and like any decent conversation, enjoy letting things float about and mutate, like the Toxic Avenger.

Title: See something that Twain saw
Post by: V-Adore on August 23, 2003, 08:16:33 pm

Now I am forced to wonder -- what would have happened had Twain seen "The Toxic Avenger?" What kind of review could be possibly have written? "I watched a made-up actor who had a living grace about his movements, at least considering the weight of the latex he wore..."