Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger Revealed in Taskbook
A pre death work The Mysterious Stranger a Romance by Mark Twain is released with Harper and Brothers editions and N C Wyeth illustrations. The piece presents Twain’s bleak view of humanity as monstrous and governed by a false moral sense and a deity who consigns people to torment.
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The Moral Sense and the Dream of Humanity
A lengthy dialogue explores civilization's violent progress from Cain to gunpowder, arguing only laughter can topple tyranny. Satan and Theodor debate humanity's fate, ending with the claim that existence is a dream and there is no God or universe.
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