Twain, Mark

CarianaCarianne, Borders (crox-boek NR 3), citaat p.37: ‚On that day, the realm of France received on parchment a stupendous accession... the vast basin of the Mississippi... and all by virtue of a feeble human voice inaudible at a half a mile.‘ Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi. Page 41: ‚Through the brilliance of well-crafted words and the humility of gentle intention Twain reveals how the river, the surrounding land, and its inhabitants met their inevitable and fatalistic death – when the Native American way of being ended, and the United States (through purchase) began. ( ) ‚But Twain would probably entertain and maybe even accept the fact of one skin thinking as a community. He might even accept such logic as a negotiable space.‘