tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post5531133482318816193..comments2023-11-03T03:45:54.322-04:00Comments on Fox Home: Captain John Smith Is the First VirginianFoxessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-3480234712635106902011-05-28T15:32:11.499-04:002011-05-28T15:32:11.499-04:00By the way people who have only read A Connecticut...By the way people who have only read <i>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court</i>, and what Twain had to say about Scott in relationship to Mardi Gras imagery and the South in general in <i>Life on the Mississippi</i>, but have not read his "Essay on Chivalry," will be surprised at the essay's content, perhaps.<br /><br />One might thinnk Twain had to have been in a very dark place in his life when he wrote <i>Connecticut Yankee</i>. It's a fairly mean book, certainly not cheery. Yet, the terrible events of his life -- the bankruptcy, the death of his daughter -- all that was ahead of him still.<br /><br />The book is quite a satire on his present-day nation and its behaviors and beliefs, and its past too, as you can tell just from the narrator's pleasure at being called 'the Boss,' and describing slave auctions. What a blinkered fellow the narrator/protag is, who believes he's so much smarter than everyone around him while missing just about everything.<br /><br />Love, C.Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.com