Mark Twain "Man is made of dirt … Man is a museum of diseases, a home of impurities, who begins as dirt and departs as stench."(1) -Mark Twain When Most people think of Mark Twain, they think of the Mississippi, or gold mining, or such things. But few people have come to realize the free-spoken and often foreboding side of Twain. Twain did much more than write fiction about a boy’s youth or a frog. …showed first 75 words of 1604 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1604 total…Wysiwyg://19/http://www.elibrary.com/s/edumark/getdoc.cgi 4. Bridges, H. J., "Pessimism of Mark Twain," As I was Saying. 4.5 Budd, Louis J. Mark Twain: Social Philosopher. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1962. 5. DeVeto, B., "The Symbols of Despair," Mark Twain at Work (1942) 5½. My Mark Twain By William Dean Howells (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1910). 6. Parsons, C. O., "The Devil and Samuel Clemens," Virginia Quarterly Review (1947) 7. Zwick, Jim. "Mark Twain on the Philippines" http://www.boondocksnet.com/twain/