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Cheiro’s Language of the Hand

This is the palm print of Samuel Clemens / Mark Twain, as published in Cheiro’s Language of the Hand. The palm prints in the book are given in negative; I’ve inverted this back to what would have been the original … more…

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Mark Twain’s Ghost

The Loquacious Haruspex offers this marvellous picture of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) in Nikola Tesla’s laboratory. Tesla can be seen in the background. The post points out that Clemens was born and he died under Halley’s Comet (which I … more…

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Mark Twain – To the Person Sitting in Darkness

How does this rock? Shall we? That is, shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest? Shall we bang right ahead in our old-time, loud, … more…

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