 It is often the case that the man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one. - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar October 12. - The Discovery. - It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - 234 psl.redagavo - 1894Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Helmbrecht Breinig - 1984 - 436 psl.
...Gesellschaftssystems als Dlusion, wie es das dem letzten Kapitel, "Conclusion," vorangestellte Motto bestätigt: "October 12, the Discovery. It was wonderful to find...but it would have been more wonderful to miss it" (201). Das irrationale und zu moralischem Handeln nur bedingt fähige Individuum ist Produkt ebenso... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - 1985 - 236 psl.
...often the case that the man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one. Ibid. 240. 146. It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. Ibid. 147. In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made proofreaders. Notebook,... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1969 - 340 psl.
...the case that the man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one. - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar October 12. - The Discovery. - It was wonderful...night to discuss the amazing events of the day, and swop guesses as to when Tom's trial would begin. Troop after troop of citizens came to serenade Wilson,... | |
 | Louis J. Budd, Edwin Harrison Cady - 1987 - 324 psl.
...irreverence of this reference to Independence Day is repeated in the final and most conspicuous entry in the Calendar: "October 12, the Discovery. It was wonderful...but it would have been more wonderful to miss it" (p. 201). Even if it were the only evidence of Twain's attitude available, this book would suggest... | |
 | Susan Gillman - 1989 - 228 psl.
...into fear of exposure. Thus Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar entry for the final chapter reads ironically, "October 12, the Discovery. It was wonderful to find...America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."50 For a murder mystery, in which the murderer's identity has been known from the very beginning,... | |
 | Susan Gillman, Forrest G. Robinson - 1990 - 282 psl.
...think that is what happened in Mark Twain's book. The last entry on Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar reads: "October 12, the Discovery. It was wonderful to find...but it would have been more wonderful to miss it" (113). The illustration accompanying this entry shows Columbus's three ships standing just off shore.... | |
 | Yoshinobu Hakutani, Robert Butler - 1995 - 274 psl.
...Wilson's calendar note for that day in the conclusion of Mark Twain's classic novel of racial prejudice: "October 12, the Discovery. It was wonderful to find...America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."24 While Twain's intention in the book is a satire on American society and on slavery in particular,... | |
 | Mark Twain, Brian Collins - 1996 - 196 psl.
...hinge, to find a way to make the lightnings carry your messages. To be the first — that is the idea. October 12, the Discovery. It was wonderful to find...would have been more wonderful to miss it. Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins, conclusion (1894). DISSENT The citizen who thinks he sees that... | |
 | Kim Ileen Moreland - 1996 - 288 psl.
...who proclaims in the epigraph to the final chapter of Pudd'nhead Wilson (attributed to Pudd'nhead's "Calendar"): "October 12, the Discovery. It was wonderful...but it would have been more wonderful to miss it" (PW 165). Yet the final irony remains, an irony of which Adams was most sharply aware. Just as chivalry... | |
 | Leslie A. Fiedler - 1997 - 524 psl.
...of the final chapter, under the rubric "Conclusion," he inscribes the following text: "October 21, The Discovery. It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it." It is the most improbable of endings for a detective story, which depends precisely upon its readers'... | |
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