Sunday, August 19, 2012

Mark Twain again...

At my older son's suggestion, I have downloaded and began reading Mark Twain's book from a long time ago called Roughing It..

It contains 500 plus pages of text, and the version that I downloaded is a picture copy of the old original book....  I'm about blind from looking into the laptop but I managed to get about half way thru the text....

Its about traveling on a stage coach before there were trains, from St Joseph, Mo to Carson City, Nevada while it was just a territory.  Times were much different at that time, and I am certain if it is fiction or somewhat based roughly on fact...  I'll have to research that question....

But other than spending all day watching the computer screen reading this work, we never accomplished a single thing here.

Have any of you read this work?  And can you reflect on it?  The story seems somewhat disjointed and I'm not sure where it is going or to what end...  But then that somewhat mirrors Huckleberry Finn...  Not sure where the story was headed and even when it was finished, not too sure where I had been....

It fell to overcast around here in the middle of the afternoon and the temps fell to barely 70 degrees by nightfall....  We went and turned up the AC as it was grinding along cooling the house that was almost cold to begin with......

I'm certain that the stay in the hot desert this summer has effected me and my judgement of temperatures for the rest of my days....

Retired Rod

3 comments:

  1. That sounds like it followed the route of the Pony Express, but he didn't travel from Carson City to Sacramento. I haven't read it, but it sounds like an interesting book.

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    1. Twain refers to the pony riders passing by them on the stage coach and how they would show up in the distance and then flash by in an instant and be gone before you could turn around and see them....

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  2. I haven't read that Mark Twain book, in fact, I don't think I've ever heard of it. I think I'll download it and give it a read though. Thanks for the tip.

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