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Today's leaders of faith-based institutions are expected to not only spiritually inspire and engage their congregations – they are also expected to effectively manage complex organizations and skillfully lead teams of staff and volunteers. Faith leaders are often confronted with the challenge of figuring out how to supplement their seminary/religious training with the skills needed for effective 21st-century organizational leadership. Kellogg's new residential executive education program, designed specifically for leaders of faith-based institutions, will give participants the opportunity to learn contemporary leadership and management skills while applying the learning objectives directly to the challenges they face in the faith-based organizations they serve.
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Chris Hedges (born 18 September 1956 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont) is a war journalist and the author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002) and What Every Person Should Know about War (2003).
- The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief.
- Over the last few decades these radical religious broadcasters, who have essentially taken control of the airwaves, have built a parallel information and entertainment service that is piped into tens of millions of American homes as a way of essentially indoctrinating listeners and viewers with this very frightening ideology.
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- War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
- Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.
- What Every Person Should Know About War
- We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who rule are mediocre at best and usually venal. The question is how do we make those in power frightened of us and not be seduced by formal political processes.
- The glitz and propaganda, the ridiculous obsessions imparted by our electronic hallucinations, and the spectacles that pass for political participation mask the deadly ecological assault by the corporate state. The worse it gets, the more we retreat into self-delusion. We convince ourselves that global warming does not exist. Or we concede that it exists but insist that we can adapt. Both responses satisfy our mania for eternal optimism and our reckless pursuit of personal comfort. In America, when reality is distasteful we ignore it. But reality will soon descend like the Furies to shatter our complacency and finally our lives. We, as a species, may be doomed. And this is a bitter, bitter fact for a father to digest.
- To be judged by the state as an innocent, is to be guilty. It is to sanction, through passivity and obedience, the array of crimes carried out by the state.
- "Happy as a Hangman," truthdig.com, December 6, 2010
- We've been saturated with cultural images and a kind of cultural deification of wealth and those who have wealth. They present people of immense wealth as somehow leaders, oracles even. We don't grasp internally what an oligarchic class is finally about, or how venal and morally bankrupt they are. We need to recover the language of class warfare to grasp what is happening to us. And we need to shatter this self-delusion that somehow if, as Obama says, we work hard enough and study hard enough, we can be one of them.
- interviewed by Paul Jay, "The Pathology of the Super-Rich"
- We live in an oligarchic state where we've been rendered utterly powerless. The judiciary, the legislative, the executive branch is all subservient to an oligarchic corporate elite. And the press is owned by an oligarchic corporate elite which makes sure that any critique of them is never broadcast over the airwaves.
- interviewed by Paul Jay, "The Pathology of the Super-Rich" 4:45
- When you spend that long on the outer reaches of empire, you understand the cruelty of empire ... and the lies we tell ourselves about what is done in our name.
- interviewed by Bill Moyers, July 22, 2012
- Paul Tillich wrote that all institutions, including the church, are inherently demonic. Reinhold Niebuhr asserted that no institution could ever achieve the morality of the individual. Institutions, he warned, to extend their lives when confronted with collapse, will swiftly betray the stances that ostensibly define them. Only individual men and women have the strength to hold fast to virtue when faced with the threat of death. And decaying institutions, including the church, when consumed by fear, swiftly push those endowed with this moral courage and radicalism from their ranks, rendering themselves obsolete.
- "The Suicide of the Liberal Church", January 24, 2016
The Death of the Liberal Class (2010)[edit]
- Hope will come with the return of the language of class conflict and rebellion, language that has been purged from the lexicon of the liberal class. This does not mean we have to agree with Karl Marx, who advocated violence and whose worship of the state as a utopian mechanism led to another form of working class enslavement, but we have to learn again to speak in the vocabulary Marx employed. We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good.
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"Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System" (2011)[edit]
truthdig.com April 10, 2011
- The United States ... celebrates rote vocational training and the singular, amoral skill of making money. It churns out stunted human products, lacking the capacity and vocabulary to challenge the assumptions and structures of the corporate state. It funnels them into a caste system of drones and systems managers. It transforms a democratic state into a feudal system of corporate masters and serfs.
- To truly teach is to instill the values and knowledge which promote the common good and protect a society from the folly of historical amnesia. The utilitarian, corporate ideology embraced by the system of standardized tests and leadership academies has no time for the nuances and moral ambiguities inherent in a liberal arts education. Corporatism is about the cult of the self. It is about personal enrichment and profit as the sole aim of human existence. And those who do not conform are pushed aside.
- I suspect that a major goal of the reform campaign is to make the work of a teacher so degrading and insulting that the dignified and the truly educated teachers will simply leave while they still retain a modicum of self-respect.
- The truly educated become conscious. They become self-aware. They do not lie to themselves. ... Thought is a dialogue with one's inner self. Those who think ask questions, questions those in authority do not want asked. They remember who we are, where we come from and where we should go. They remain eternally skeptical and distrustful of power. And they know that this moral independence is the only protection from the radical evil that results from collective unconsciousness. The capacity to think is the only bulwark against any centralized authority that seeks to impose mindless obedience. There is a huge difference, as Socrates understood, between teaching people what to think and teaching them how to think.
- Those who are endowed with a moral conscience refuse to commit crimes, even those sanctioned by the corporate state, because they do not in the end want to live with criminals—themselves.
- Those who meekly obey laws and rules imposed from the outside—including religious laws—are not moral human beings. The fulfillment of an imposed law is morally neutral. The truly educated make their own wills serve the higher call of justice, empathy and reason.
- As Arendt pointed out, we must trust only those who have this self-awareness. This self-awareness comes only through consciousness. It comes with the ability to look at a crime being committed and say "I can't." We must fear, Arendt warned, those whose moral system is built around the flimsy structure of blind obedience. We must fear those who cannot think.
"Our Only Hope Will Come Through Rebellion" (2014)[edit]
A lecture delivered on 29 March 2014 at the "One Nation Under Surveillance" civil liberties conference at Central Connecticut State University
- The irony is that Barack Obama would not even be president if it were not for the courage of persecuted dissidents such as Martin Luther King or Malcolm X, spied upon by their own government. But Obama understands where power lies. It does not lie with the citizen. It lies with Wall Street and our corporate boardrooms, which have carried out a slow motion coup d'état. And a system of mass surveillance is designed to keep these elites in these boardrooms powerful and the rest of us powerless.
- 21:20
- Totalitarianism no longer comes in the form of communism or fascism. It comes now from corporations. And these corporations fear those who think and write, those who speak out and form relationships freely. Individual freedom impedes their power and their profits. Our democracy, as Snowden I think has revealed, has become a fiction. The state, through elaborate forms of political theater, seeks to maintain this fiction to keep us passive. And if we wake up, the state will not shy away from draconian measures. The goal is complete subjugation, the iron rule of our corporations and our power elite.
- 25:13
- Moral courage means to defy the crowd, to stand up as a solitary individual, to shun the intoxicating embrace of comradeship, and to be disobedient to authority, even at the risk of your life, for a higher principle.
- 26:50
- Moral courage ... is always defined by the state as treason. ... It is the courage to act and speak the truth. Thompson had it. Daniel Ellsburg had it. Malcolm X had it. Martin Luther King had it. What those in authority once said about them they say today about Snowden.
- 27:43
- An omnipresent surveillance state ... makes democratic dissent impossible. Any state that has the ability to inflict full spectrum dominance on its citizens is not a free state.
- 29:29
- The relationship between those who are constantly watched and tracked and those who watch and track them is the relationship between masters and slaves.
- 30:02
- The government officials, along with the courtiers and the press, ... insist that congressional and judicial oversight, the right to privacy, the rule of law, the freedom of the press, the right to express dissent remains inviolate. They use the old words and old phrases, old laws and old constitutional guarantees, to give our corporate totalitarianism a democratic veneer.
- 34:44
- We now live in what the German political scientist Ernst Fränkl called the dual state. Totalitarian states are always dual states. ... The outward forms of democracy, of democratic participation, voting, competing political parties, judicial oversight and legislation remain, but are hollow political stagecraft. And Fränkl called those who wield this unchecked power over the citizenry "the prerogative state." The masses in a totalitarian structure live in what he termed "the normative state." The normative state, he said, is defenseless against the abuses of the prerogative state.
- 36:15
- All those who challenge the abuses of power by the prerogative state, like Snowden, who expose the crimes carried out by government, are turned into criminals. Totalitarian states always invert the moral order. It is the wicked that rule, and it is the just that are damned.
- 37:55
- This deadly impasse, the tightening of the corporate totalitarian noose, would have continued if Snowden had not jolted the nation awake by disclosing the massive crimes of the prerogative state.
- 39:25
- Societies such as ours that once had democratic traditions or periods when relative openness was possible are often the most easily seduced into totalitarian systems because those who rule and build totalitarian structures continue to pay outward fealty to the ideals, practices and forms of the old system.
- 40:35
- Reform will come and only come through the building of mass movements and alternative centers of power that can overthrow—let me repeat that word for Homeland Security—overthrow the corporate state. If we fail to sever these chains, we will become like many who did not rise up in time to save their civil society's human chattel. This means we too must defy the law and engage in civil disobedience
- 42:45
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- The more communities break down and poverty expands, the more anxious and frightened people will retreat into self-delusion. Those who speak the truth—whether about climate change or our system of inverted totalitarianism—will be branded as seditious and unpatriotic. They will be hated for destroying the illusion. This, as Gabler noted, is the danger of a society dominated by entertainment. Such a society, he wrote, "… took dead aim at the intellectuals' most cherished values. That theme was the triumph of the senses over the mind, of emotion over reason, of chaos over order, or the id over the superego. … Entertainment was Plato's worst nightmare. It deposed the rational and enthroned the sensational and in so doing deposed the intellectual minority and enthroned the unrefined majority."
- Those rebels who rise up to try to wrest back power from despotic forces will endure not only the violence of the state, but the hatred and vigilante violence meted out by the self-deluded victims of exploitation. The systems of propaganda will relentlessly demonize those who resist.


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1Analyze. The most important part is to become familiar with your own mannerisms and logic. When you accomplish something (anything), think about how you came to the conclusions you made. Don't let even the slightest moment escape your thoughts. Even something as minuscule as an involuntary motion or thought.
2Dissect. Separate your thoughts into separate categories: mistakes, conclusions, processes, and external stimulus (inspiration or distractions that affected you) more categories than just these may be necessary. Repeat # 1 as needed to draw further conclusions.
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Skip to comments.Quang Nguyen: Thank you Viet Nam Veterans and all Veterans
Posted on 08/23/2010 12:25:23 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
35 years ago if you were to tell me that I am going to stand up here speaking in English to a large group of patriots, Id laugh at you. Every morning I wake up thanking God for putting family and me in the greatest country on earth.
I just want you all to know that the American dream does exist and I am living the American dream. I was asked to speak to you about my experience as a first generation Vietnamese American, but I rather speak to you as an American.
If you hadnt noticed, I am not white and I feel pretty comfortable with my people.
I am a proud US citizen and here is my proof It took me 8 years to get it, waiting in endless lines, but I got it and I am very proud of it. Guess what, I did it legally and it aint from the state of Hawaii.
I still remember the images of the Tet offensive in 1968. I was six years old. Now you might want to question how a 6year old boy could remember anything. Trust me, those images can never be erased. I cant even imagine what it was like for young American soldiers, 10,000 miles away from home, fighting on my behalf. 35 years ago, I left South Vietnam to come to America for political asylum. The war had ended. At the age of 13, I left with the understanding that I may or may not ever get to see my siblings or parents again. I was one of the first lucky 100,000 Vietnamese allowed to come to the US. Somehow, my family and I were reunited 5 months later, amazingly, in California. It was a miracle from God.
If you havent heard lately that this is the greatest country on earth, let me tell you, IT IS!!! It is the freedom and the opportunities presented to me that put me here with all of you tonight. I also remember the barriers that I had to overcome every step of the way. My high school counselor told me that I could not make it to college due to my poor communication skills. I proved him wrong. I finished college. You see All you have to do is to give this little boy an opportunity and encourage him to take and run with it. Well, I took the opportunities and here I am. This person standing tonight in front of you could not exist under a socialist/communist environment. By the way, if you think socialism is the way to go, I am sure many people here will chip in to get you a one-way ticket out of here. And if you didnt know, the only difference between socialism and communism is an AK-47 aiming at your head. That was what I knew and grew up with.
In 1983, I stood with a thousand new immigrants, reciting the pledge of allegiance and listening to the National Anthem for the first time as an American. To this day, I cant remember anything sweeter and more patriotic than that moment in my life.
Fast forwarding, somehow I finished high school, finished college, and like any other goofball 21 year old kid, I was having a great time with my life, I had a nice job and a nice apartment in Southern California. In someway and somehow, I had forgotten how I got here and why I am here.
One day I was at a gas station, I saw a veteran pumping gas on the other side of the island. I didnt know what made me do it, but I walked over and asked if he had served in Vietnam. He smiled and said Yes. I shook and held his hand. His eyes started to well up. I walked away as fast as I could and at that very moment, I was emotionally rocked, this was a profound moment in life. I knew something had to change in my life. It was time for me to learn how to be a good citizen. It was time for me to give back.
You see America is not place on the map; it isnt a physical location. It is an ideal, a concept. And if you are an American, you must understand the concept, you must buy into this concept and most importantly, you have to fight and defend this concept. This is about Freedom and not free stuff. And that is why I am standing up here. Brothers and sisters, to be a real American, the very least you must do is to learn English and understand it well. In my humble opinion, you cannot be a faithful patriotic citizen if you cant speak the language of the country you live in. Take this document of 46 pages Last I looked on the internet, there wasnt a Vietnamese translation of the US constitution. It took me a long time to get to the point of being able to converse and until this day, I still struggle to come up with the right words. Its not easy, but if its too easy, its not worth doing.
Before I got to know this 46- page document, I learned of the 500,000 Americans who fought for this little boy. I learned of the 58,000 names scribed on the black wall at the Vietnam War memorial. You are my heroes. You are my founders.
When I was eligible to vote, I went out and performed my civic duty. For all of you young people out there, who just turned 18, I encourage you to exercise your duty as an American to be an informed voter no matter where you are or what you do. America fought and died for your rights. DONT LET HER DOWN!!!
At this time, I would like to ask all the Vietnam veterans to please stand. I thank you for my life. I thank you for your sacrifices, and I thank you for giving me the freedom and the liberties I have today. I now ask All veterans, firefighters, and police officers, to please stand. On behalf of all first generation immigrants, I thank you for your service and may God bless you all and may God bless America!
I like him already.
You're welcome.
Lovely! It's so nice to hear from someone who "gets it".
You're exactly right. My ex-wife is a Korean I met while serving in the ROK. While the marriage thing didn't last, she never failed to be appreciative for the things the US stands for and the cost of freedom.
In the Insurance Agency where I used to work, many of the immigrant citizens were more informed and knowledgeable about the workings of government than the "natural born citizens". Especially the ones from Vietnam. It was a pleasure to have discussions and to see how much they appreciated this country.
Actually I break down the group even further. The "economic refugees", legal or illegal, are the ones that look to America as a source of cash. They really could care less about the country or its inhabitants.
On the other hand the immigrants who come here because of political persecution in their homeland are usually the ones that love what America stands for and bust their nut to make sure they get a piece of the freedom pie. I welcome all such people regardless of race, etc., because THEY understand what America is all about.
Thanks for posting this. Makes my day.
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Welcome home, guys. Welcome.
Your difficulties back home here are lessons. Your hardships and horrible, disgraceful treatment are teachers now. You can help all those who are sorely misused now.
Your strength and perseverance is a model and inspiration for us all.
God bless you all. Everyone.
Glad you liked it! I thought it was inspiring.
By one year, I was too young to serve in Vietnam before the drawdown, but my sincerest thanks go out to each and every one of the warriors who stood tall for America during that time and served in that war. God bless you all.
Makes my day, too.
C 1/501, 101st Airborne Div. '71-'72
Thanks to all of you guys for your service...
Thank you very much.
"This veteran came back to an America that did not welcome us back because of the lies of Walter Cronkite, John Kerry and Jane Fonda. This veteran came back to an America that spit on soldiers 12 hours off of the battlefield. This veteran came back to an America that denied us jobs and careers because, when our country called, we answered, and were called killers, dopers, and baby rapists for it."
Doesn't square with an America which elected Nixon in 1968 and then re-elected Nixon by a huge margin in 1972.
Nor does it square with my own experience returning from overseas service (not Vietnam) in 1970.
Nobody bothered me, got my old good job back, went to college at night.
(I don't accept the portrayal of vietnam era vets as homeless, drug addicted alcoholics. Nor do I accept veterans, or conservatives seeking victimhood of any kind).
Mr. Nguyen,
The honor was mine.
Semper Fi,
Enjoy the view from beneath the sand. Many of the rest of us weren't that lucky. When I enlisted, I wasn't able to get a decent job because I hadn't served in the military and the draft quotas were high. After I got out, I couldn't get a decent job because I HAD served!!
If you experienced none of that, consider yourself VERY lucky!! As for the rest, it's a free country and you can believe what you want.
Sorry to harp, but I'm not seeking victimhood. I'm stating a fact! Deal with it.
Another Great American stands up and speaks out for America.
Remember Tam Ky!
Wow, excellent article!
Most Americans are blind to what he sees on the horizon. He's seen it once before.
Bump for the evening crowd....
Thank you for your thought. I am very glad to see this.
It is good to know that some of our friends got out of Vietnam and have done well in America.
Semper Fi
Chu Hoi Mr.Nguyen,,,
Welcome Home...
It's about
Thank you for posting this. But now I have a problem with my monitor getting all fogged up, or else it's these new contacts that are making my eyes water...
And to the young American-by-choice, you are most welcome. I could wish that my fellow Americans had been so gracious when we came home from your former country!
Welcome home, Marine.
Thanks for the ping!
Thanks, brother. I do appreciate it!
DC Wright
Patriotism is like a good fire - you gotta throw on a big log (like this story) once in awhile to keep it alive. To those who gave all - May you rest in Peace. For the rest of us, may we live in Peace.
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Obama represents everything wrong with today's United States, from his hatred of whites, Jews, and the military, to his life-long desire to destroy American greatness. If my dad were still alive he'd surely give Obama the contempt he so richly deserves.
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|4 Cup (64 tbs)
|Leftover lamb
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|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|Pearl barley
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|Diced turnip
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Diced carrots
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|Diced leek
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs) (White And Some Green)
|Diced celery
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|Diced mushrooms
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Combine stock, leftover lamb and bones, water and barley.
Cover, bring to boil, lower heat and simmer 1/2 hour.Remove meat and bones, shred meat and set aside.
Continue cooking soup 1 hour or until barley is softened.
Add turnip, carrots, leeks and celery; cook 15 minutes.
Add mushrooms and tomatoes and cook 5 more minutes.
Add shredded lamb and reheat.
Adjust seasonings with salt and pepper.
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Calories 1065 Calories from Fat 428
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 48 g73.1%
Saturated Fat 19 g95%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 220 mg73.3%
Sodium 2681.2 mg111.7%
Total Carbohydrates 75 g25.1%
Dietary Fiber 15.4 g61.5%
Sugars 25.4 g
Protein 86 g172.6%
Vitamin A 418.3% Vitamin C 108.3%
Calcium 30.4% Iron 54%
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I have been noticing a dramatic increase in the rate of crime in our area lately especially armed robbery. Robbery has typically been a males crime, but some are now suspected of having been committed by at least one female. These are the actions of desperate people in our hard economic times.
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In option menu turn on 'quick start mode' then x-e1 will wake up almost immediately. I notice that when I have quick start mode set to of then turning on of manually taking less time then to hold shutter button and wait for x-e1 to wake up....don't know how it affects battery life
Thanks for the input! It seems that "function" works. Why did Fuji never think of a default "slow" start mode is beyond me. But let's see how reliable it is.
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I love Mark Twain's stories. He has a very engaging way of writing. His autobiography took a bit to get through however. He jumped around from topic to topic (he'd start talking about one thing, mention it reminded him of something else and go off on a tangent). That took some getting used to.
Seeing the correspondence he had with his contemporaries was really interesting. When he started talking about his daughter Suzy and the biography she had written about him when she was younger, you could feel the love and adoration he had for her.
I waited a long time to get this from the library. Now I am not so sure about it - over 700 pages and the smallest print I have seen in a book in a long time. It seems the first several HUNDRED pages are an introduction and the last several hundred are footnotes. So I may skip to the middle several hundred to read what Twain himself wrote. He specified that the book could not be published until he was dead for 100 years, and since he died in 1910, we now have this prodigious tome, which by the way, is only Volume I of his autobiography! (The preceding was written on January 5, 2011)
Now on February 20th, I am finally getting around to writing about the book. Yes, I did skip the first several hundred pages and I did not make it all the way through to the footnotes. I had to return the book to the library, but I put it on reserve again to finish it. But it is well worth reading. I found myself laughing out loud in many instances and I can fully understand why Twain wanted to make sure that everyone he wrote about was dead before this was published. He has a way of insulting people in such beautiful language, that the intended recipient of the insult may be left to ponder if it was an insult or a compliment. The overused phrase "rapier wit" fits Twain exactly.
Since Twain himself decided that an autobiography does not necessarily have to be in chronological order and tales should be told whenever thay strike the writer's fancy, there is no problem with picking up this book at a later date and take up reading at a rendom page. I only wish that the editors would publish an edition without the 400 pages of added notes and let the reader get to Twain's work without all the commentary. It would be so much easier to carry!
This is an interesting exercise. Apparently Twain never wanted to write and publish an autobiography as long as he was alive. So because he wrote so many great books and could make some money by writing of his life, he put together some bits that could be interesting. The main issues are the side issues of what do we think of US Grant (Twain thought very highly of him) and Helen Keller, whom he met at a lunch.
But there is not enough to make the entire book worthwhile. I have purchased volume 2 and I hope it is better.
Mark Twain had a mouth on him, no doubt about it – and that is why it is still so much fun to read the man's writing today. But even Twain knew that the world was not quite ready for the unexpurgated version of his thoughts that comprises the first two volumes (a third volume is yet to follow) of his autobiography, so he stipulated that the complete biography was not to be published until 100 years after his death – which occurred on April 21, 1910. For those of us lucky enough to be around for the unveiling of the uncensored version of the manuscripts, it was well worth the wait.
Close to half of the material contained in the autobiography has never been published before, and readers have the Mark Twain Project (of the University of California, Berkeley) to thank for making it available now. The previously published material has been published several times in the past, but always in an abridged form guaranteed not to offend. But even the unrestricted version of Twain's manuscripts is not what readers have come to expect from an autobiography.
Rather than tell the story of his life in chronological order, Twain decided early on that he would dictate his thoughts to a stenographer as they occurred to him – regardless of where they might fit into the story of his life. And, because he wanted them published in the order that he dictated them, reading the two books is more like having a conversation with Twain than anything else. It is as if the man were sitting across the room and telling random stories from his life as they cross his mind.
And what stories they are! They range all the way from his thoughts on rather trivial newspaper stories that may have caught his eye over breakfast to wonderful remembrances of things that happened in the first decade or two of his life. We learn of the villains in Twain's world, some of whom personally crippled him with huge financial losses and scams, and others who were simply the villains of their times, men like Jay Gould and Belgium's King Leopold II. We learn much about his brother, a man full of dreams but without the ability to make any of them come true. And most touchingly, Twain shares his deep love for Susy, the daughter who was snatched from the family so suddenly, by quoting liberally from the biography she wrote about her father. (My own favorite sections of the book deal with Twain's relationship with the U.S. Grant family and publication of the former president's memoirs.)
Twain, though, never passes up the opportunity for a little personal vengeance. As he often reminds his readers, he is speaking from the grave now, so what does he care about offending anyone? He just wants to set the record straight – at least as he sees that record. So rather unfortunately, the reader will have to wade through what seems like countless pages about the copyright laws of the day and biting commentary about an Italian landlady who drove Twain nuts for several months.
Intimidating as the two books may first appear, the author's charm and rascality make reading them a pleasure that Twain fans will not want to miss.
I just wasn't feeling it...
That century has passed now and here it is, Volume 1 of "The Complete Authentic Unexpurgated Edition, Nothing Has Been Omitted, Not Even Scandalous Passages Likely to Cause Grown Men to Gasp and Women to Collapse in Tears — No Children Under 7 Allowed to Read This Book Under Any Circumstance," which made Sam front-page news when all three volumes of the "Autobiography of Mark Twain" were announced last spring. The book turns out to be a wonderful fraud on the order of the Duke and the Dauphin in their Shakespearean romp, and bravo to Samuel Clemens, still able to catch the public's attention a century after he expired.
He speaks from the grave, he writes, so that he can speak freely — "as frank and free and unembarrassed as a love letter" — but there's precious little frankness and freedom here and plenty of proof that Mark Twain, in the hands of academics, can be just as tedious as anybody else when he is under the burden of his own reputation. Here, sandwiched between a 58-page barrage of an introduction and 180 pages of footnotes, is a ragbag of scraps, some of interest, most of them not....
Occasionally, maybe once in 50 pages, the old man will go on a little too long. His dreams, dietary problems and complaints about stock-market reversals are as boring as yours and mine. Many of the news stories he fixates on seem dated now. On the whole, however, this volume is hard to stop reading. Twain's prosody is so sure, and his powers of observation and selection so great, that he can take the most unpromising material—a real-estate deed, a letter from a would-be author—and make it glitter, like dull stone that turns out to be quartz or even diamond. Like Nabokov, he knew how to "caress the details, the divine details."
Mark Twain is his own greatest character in this brilliant self-portrait, the first of three volumes collected by the Mark Twain Project on the centenary of the author's death. It is published complete and unexpurgated for the first time. (Twain wanted his more scalding opinions suppressed until long after his death.) Eschewing chronology and organization, Twain simply meanders from observation to anecdote and between past and present. There are gorgeous reminiscences from his youth of landscapes, rural idylls, and Tom Sawyeresque japes; acid-etched profiles of friends and enemies, from his 'fiendish' Florentine landlady to the fatuous and 'grotesque' Rockefellers; a searing polemic on a 1906 American massacre of Filipino insurgents; a hilarious screed against a hapless editor who dared tweak his prose; and countless tales of the author's own bamboozlement, unto bankruptcy, by publishers, business partners, doctors, miscellaneous moochers; he was even outsmarted by a wild turkey. Laced with Twain's unique blend of humor and vitriol, the haphazard narrative is engrossing, hugely funny, and deeply revealing of its author's mind. His is a world where every piety conceals fraud and every arcadia a trace of violence; he relishes the human comedy and reveres true nobility, yet as he tolls the bell for friends and family--most tenderly in an elegy for his daughter Susy, who died in her early 20s of meningitis--he feels that life is a pointless charade. Twain's memoirs are a pointillist masterpiece from which his vision of America--half paradise, half swindle--emerges with indelible force.
Before his death in 1910, Mark Twain left instructions that his autobiography, on which he'd been working by fits and starts, be left unpublished for 100 years. Now, at the century mark, from the army of Twain scholars at the University of California's Mark Twain Project, comes the dazzling first volume of the ultimate, authoritative three-volume 'Autobiography of Mark Twain' With no fear of reprisals, always in the center of mid-19th-century America's political, social, and cultural life, and acquainted with everyone of note, Twain wrote briskly and both favorably and fiercely on how he felt about people and events. Twain's writing here is electric, alternately moving and hilarious. He couldn't write a ho-hum sentence. Disappointed with other systems of organization, Twain settled on writing on a topic that interested him before switching to another when it so moved him. To read this volume is to be introduced to Twain as if, thrillingly, for the first time. A 58-page introduction, 138 pages of 'Preliminary Manuscripts and Dictations,' 176 pages of 'Explanatory Notes,' and a section of 'Family Biographies' (all freshly fascinating) round out the volume. VERDICT: Enthusiastically recommended. This may overwhelm Twain newcomers, but it is essential for specialists.
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"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion--to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"--meant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for 100 years meant that when they came out, he would be "dead, and unaware, and indifferent," and that he was therefore free to speak his "whole frank mind." The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press is proud to offer for the first time Mark Twain's uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it. This major literary event brings to readers, admirers, and scholars the first of three volumes and presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.
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