Lunch with Mark Twain!

I don’t know if you could consider him a philosopher, but he sure had a lot to say about the human condition.

Which makes me wonder if Mark Twain would have liked cheeseburgers, red chili, and a vanilla shake for lunch.

I think our lunch would have been interesting.

The man was a cynic, but one who had both feet in the real world. In the preface to one of his greatest works (or at least it is from my viewpoint), The War Prayer, it read that he wrote it, and his daughter read it. After reading it, his daughter is supposed to have said, “You publish this, and they will crucify you.”

Twain is supposed to have stood looking out the window for a while and then said, “Only dead men tell the truth. Publish it after I’m gone.”

To this day, The War Prayer is one of the most disturbing stories I’ve ever encountered.

Of course, to sit down and break bread with this famous man would have resulted in one of two things. Either we’d have really enjoyed each other’s company or we’d have gotten in a fist fight.

Either way, it would have been awesome.