Correction: Belated answer to Mark Twain Q

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jul 31, 2009, at 7:40 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> Letters from Earth?

Amazingly nasty stuff, fully armed  and engaged in the Hunter S.  
Thompson territory of fortissimo screed— mind-blowingly unsentimental:

	More men go to church than want to.

	To forty-nine men in fifty the Sabbath Day is a dreary, dreary
	bore.

	Of all the men in a church on a Sunday, two-thirds are tired
	when the service is half over, and the rest before it is finished.

	The gladdest moment for all of them is when the preacher
	uplifts his hands for the benediction. You can hear the soft
	rustle of relief that sweeps the house, and you recognize that it
	is eloquent with gratitude.

	All nations look down upon all other nations.

	All nations dislike all other nations.

	All white nations despise all colored nations, of whatever hue,
	and oppress them when they can.

	White men will not associate with "niggers," nor marry them.

	They will not allow them in their schools and churches.

	All the world hates the Jew, and will not endure him except
	when he is rich.

	I ask you to note all those particulars.

http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/twainlfe.htm#1