More scenes from a book-tour: Boing Boing reader Jason Baker saw this morning’s post on the homebrew irising peephole mechanism, so he banged up this awesome facsimile
out of cardboard and hot glue and fishing line and pushpins and brought
it to today’s signing at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC (thanks to
all the awesome folks who turned out!).
Goodblood sez, “Just before he died, Mark Twain stipulated that his
autobiography should only be published 100 years after he died, and
that’s now. Exciting!”
ZOMG. Want to read right now!
The creator of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and some of the most
frequently misquoted catchphrases in the English language
left behind 5,000 unedited pages of memoirs when he died in 1910,
together with handwritten notes saying that he did not want them to hit
bookshops for at least a century.
That milestone has now been reached, and in November the University of
California, Berkeley, where the manuscript is in a vault, will release
the first volume of Mark Twain’s autobiography. The eventual trilogy
will run to half a million words, and shed new light on the
quintessentially American novelist…
“He had doubts about God, and in the autobiography, he questions the
imperial mission of the US in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
He’s also critical of [Theodore] Roosevelt, and takes the view that
patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel. Twain also disliked
sending Christian missionaries to Africa. He said they had enough
business to be getting on with at home: with lynching going on in the
South, he thought they should try to convert the heathens down there.”
In other sections of the autobiography, Twain makes cruel observations
about his supposed friends, acquaintances and one of his landladies.
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