noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer) — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 08:42:00 +0000

what up people?! im gonna put a few quotes on here, all of which are by mark twain and can be found in his book Letters From the Earth:
the following is an excerpt from a letter to heaven from the fallen angel, satan, who has been sent to earth as punishment for a day. here he is referring to what man imagines heaven to be... "Meantime, every person is playing on a harp- those millions and millions!- whereas not more than twenty in the thousand of them could play an instrument in the earth, or ever wanted to. Consider the deafening hurrican of sound- millions and millions of voices screaming at once and millions and millions of harps gritting their teeth at the same time! I ask you: is it hideous, is it odious, is it horrible?"

here satan is making a couple of observations about the wonderful little world of ours... "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."

satan here makes a good point about the idea of heaven and what we believe to be in it... "... he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstacy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race- and of ours- sexual intercourse! It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longedfor things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!"

Mindless Ranting