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" 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 - 1894
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Pudd'nhead Wilson– Those Extraordinary Twins ; The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg

Mark Twain - 1998 - 326 psl.
...he is the best judge of one. — PUDD'NHEAD WILSON'S CALENDAR October 12. — The Discovery. — // was wonderful to find America, but it would have been...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,...
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Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science

Ronald R. Thomas - 1999 - 368 psl.
...f1ngerprints with his ironic narrative of the nation that has been running through the Calendar entries: "October 12, the Discovery. It was wonderful to find...but it would have been more wonderful to miss it" (p. 113). The illustration that accompanies this entry in the first edition of the novel shows Columbus's...
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Interracialism– Black-white Intermarriage in American History, Literature ...

Werner Sollors - 2000 - 566 psl.
...surely, had there been a MeCarthy Committee in Twain's day, caused the author to be subpoenaed before it: ''October 12 — The Discovery — It was wonderful...but it would have been more wonderful to miss it." And a final admonition that might almost be Mark Twain himself concerned with the tight and astringent...
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Interracialism– Black-white Intermarriage in American History, Literature ...

Werner Sollors - 2000 - 566 psl.
...Committee in Twain's day, caused the author to be subpoenaed before it: "Octaber 12— -The Diicovery — It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it." And a final admonition that might almost be Mark Twain himself concerned with the tight and astringent...
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The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, 9 tomas

Langston Hughes - 2001 - 952 psl.
...surely, had there been a McCarthy Committee in Twain's day, caused the author to be subpoenaed before it: '''October 12 — The Discovery — It was wonderful...but it would have been more wonderful to miss it." And a final admonition that might almost be Mark Twain himself concerned with the tight and astringent...
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Mark Twain– The Fate of Humor

James Melville Cox - 2002 - 374 psl.
...commemorating Columbus' discovery of America (heading the chapter in which Pudd'nhead becomes the hero: "October 12. The Discovery. It was wonderful to find...but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.") The experience of the novel enables one to see beyond Pudd'nhead's dry observation that it would have...
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Surface and Depth– The Quest for Legibility in American Culture

Michael T. Gilmore - 2003 - 240 psl.
...American legibility. "October 12, the Discovery," reads one of the late entries in Wilson's calendar. "It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it." 3 This is one of just two entries with a date, a conspicuous omission in a calendar, and the absence...
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Gurdjieff's America– Mediating the Miraculous

Paul Beekman Taylor - 2004 - 364 psl.
...followed on July 17. Chapter 6 1924 Orage, Toomer and King Staking Gurdjieff's Claim in America "lt was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it"* "No one ever got broke underestimating the taste of the American public."* "Misled as we often are,...
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The United States in Global Contexts– American Studies After 9/11 and Iraq

Walter Grünzweig - 2004 - 188 psl.
...negative assessments of the young nation, among others, the quintessential American Mark Twain said, "It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it." Later, HL Mencken went Twain one better. "Q. If you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the...
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Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog– On Writers and Writing

Louis Decimus Rubin - 2005 - 144 psl.
...that of a commercial hotel. The American Scene may be said to adumbrate Pudd'nhead Wilson's aphorism: "October 12, the Discovery. It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been even more wonderful to miss it." When I reread James's chapters on New York City recently, I thought...
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