#PercivalEverett" “My writing ‘James’ is not in any way an indictment of #Twain at all,” #Everett told NPR. “I’m writing the novel that Twain was not ill-equipped, but unequipped to write. That being the story of Jim. So I consider this more as being in discourse with Twain.”
#PercivalEverett" “My writing ‘James’ is not in any way an indictment of #Twain at all,” #Everett told NPR. “I’m writing the novel that Twain was not ill-equipped, but unequipped to write. That being the story of Jim. So I consider this more as being in discourse with Twain.”
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Attributed (probably incorrectly) to Mark Twain. I concur and it has got worse as I have grown older.
I'm a #software#engineer living in #Saskatchewan, #Canada, the middle of the prairies. I've worked in countless domains, but find #python generally useful for many of them, and have been using it for nearly 30 years.
I'm a #HouseRabbit enthusiast and have had them for more than 20 years.
I gave Lena's story in a mega-thread I wrote about having a #HouseRabbit, and the #psychology of rabbits, and how to get along with and understand them.
People around here may have noticed I rarely suffer from a #WordShortage. As #Twain probably didn't actually say, "I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."