Mark Twain Performs -- Audio Clips, Letters From the Earth, Twain's Wedding Toast, Interview with Rod Rawlings
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The Creation 10:58
After witnessing The Creation, three archangels, Gabriel, Michael and Satan, are perplexed. God explains that animals and mankind are experiments. While serving yet another brief banishment, Satan visits Earth, and promises to report his observations in letters to the archangels.
Satan's Letter I 2:46
Satan's brief opening letter comments on the extraordinary curiosities encountered on Earth, especially man, which "at his very very best is a sort of low-grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable...."
Satan's Letter II 15:52
Nothing about man is not strange to an immortal... Men imagine a heaven... harps, hymns, hugs and adulation... the unending Sabbath... absolute equality among all... exalting the intellect, but leaving it to rot... and only the holy can enjoy this bedlam.
Satan's Letter III 16:42
One of man's principal religions... the Old and New Testaments... some good morals... a thousand lies... twenty million suns... those ignorant children... the Moral Sense... the birth of modesty... punishment to fit the crime... sarcasms uttered without a smile.
Satan's Letter IV 5:35
Supreme Art... populating the world... very bad people... Noah and his family... building the Ark... no rudder, sails, compass, pumps, charts, anchors, log, light, ventilation... at sea eleven months... business samples of animals... the parent of all the immoralities.
Satan's Letter V 7:04
Quadrupeds and alligators... no ornithorhynchus... flood one small corner of the globe... an excited stranger... vast masses of tumultuous flesh... reproachful vacancy in a contract... getting the flies aboard... lifting imploring prayers... an All-Pitying Being.
Satan's Letter VI 12:34
The sacred bird providentially preserved... watery instabilities and iron firmnesses... jealousy is the key... fretful about small things... an army that never relents... all those pains and diseases and miseries... fiend and father the same thing!
Satan's Letter VII 17:04
Full of microbes... O constipation... a special-affliction agent for each... designed for the poor... the Eye that never sleeps...annexing the dividend... an ingenious idea... one who has no pity... learn to be like him.
Satan's Letter VIII 14:31
Most interesting fool... the curious conclusions he draws... the goat and the tortoise... Thou shalt not commit adultery... an indestructible law... only briefly competent... robbed everywhere... woman is a damned fool.
Satan's Letter IX 3:32
The rain... a flood as good as the best one... Noah planted a vineyard... the promise was bad... that same tiresome human race... little body of Christians... sandpaper their souls... down on the level of David.
Satan's Letter X 16:49
Salvation by fire... heaviest curse devisable... man's best friend... beyond the tomb... love for his poor human children... all the heads of the people... the Lord could never abide indelicacy... guilty to this day... the earliest accomplishment.
Satan's Letter XI 9:19
(The Final Letter)
Slays, slays, slays... worst of slaveries... bereaved and friendless virgins... none had escaped his lecherous embrace... the hush of death... the Midianite campaign... the Minnesota massacre... the Beatitudes... Numbers and Deuteronomy.
Mark Twain's Wedding Toast
Wedding Toast 1:00
Radio Interview 6:45
Wedding Toast 1:00
This groom's toast by Samuel Clemens at his 1870 wedding to Olivia Langdon was prophetic for them both.
Radio Interview 6:45
Rod Rawlings as Mark Twain is interviewed by Chuck Englund, WLSS Newstalk 930, promoting "Chorus of the Keys" at the Riverview Performing Arts Center.
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