Mark Twain in Damascus

Mar 8

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Interesting post by Barb Drummond.

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Some more from Charles Glass, in his ‘Tribes with Flags’. I knew Train travelled to Britain, but I had no idea he had done the Grand Tour to the Middle East as well:

This is Twain on Damascus in 1867:

“She measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and prosper and crumble into ruin. she is a type of immortality. She saw the foundations of Baalbek and Thebes and Ephesus laid; she saw these villages grow into mighty cities and amaze the world with their grandeur – and she has lived to see them desolate, deserted, and given over to the owls and the bats. She saw the Israelitish empire exalted, and she saw it annihilated. She saw Greece rise and flourish two thousand years and die. In her old age she saw Rome built; she saw it overshadow the…

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Carole Di Tosti, Ph.D. is an Entertainment Journalist (Broadway, Off Broadway, Drama Desk voter) novelist, poet and playwright. Carole Di Tosti has over 1800 articles, reviews, sonnets and other online writings, all of which appear on her website: https://caroleditostibooks.com Carole Di Tosti writes for Blogcritics.com, Sandi Durell's Theater Pizzazz and other New York theater websites. Carole Di Tost free-lanced for VERVE and wrote for Technorati for 2 years. Some of the articles are archived. Carole Di Tosti covers premiere film festivals in the NY area:: Tribeca FF, NYFF, DOC NYC, Hamptons IFF, NYJewish FF, Athena FF. She also covered SXSW until 2020. Carole Di Tosti's novel 'Peregrine: The Ceremony of Powers' was released in 2021. Her poetry book 'Light Shifts' was released in 2021. 'The Berglarian,' a comedy in two acts was released in 2023.

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  1. Barb Drummond's avatar Barb Drummond | March 9, 2016 at 3:34 pm

    Thanks for the reblog. glad you liked it. >

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