6/12/2023 0 Comments Mark twain letters from hawaii![]() ![]() In the midst of writing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Mark Twain remarked that “my tank has run dry it was empty the stock of materials was exhausted the story could not go on.” 1 Little did he imagine that this novel and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), would become one of his most remembered and still studied texts today. Mark Jenkins, A Man’s Life: Dispatches from Dangerous Places Nothing will ever again be black-and-white. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind-and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. ![]() Real adventure-self-determined, self-motivated, often risky-forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. ![]()
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