By Richard Bridgman
ISBN-10: 0520059522
ISBN-13: 9780520059528
ISBN-10: 0585281092
ISBN-13: 9780585281094
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Although Twain would repeatedly revert to the Page 20 idea of the strong man who could manage the otherwise perverse human animal, he ultimately suspected that the abuses rose from deeper sources, the key to which might be found at the heart of Western spirituality. In the Innocents, the pivotal point between Europe and Asia is Greece. Its cultural riches were virtually denied the party, however, since the ship had just come from Italy where a cholera epidemic was developing; the passengers, therefore, were not to land until they had remained in quarantine for eleven days.
Mark Twain identifies this leader by four roles that in his experience were always at best equivocal: actor, Page 26 adventurer, Mormon, and missionary. At heart, Adams was a confidence man, no better in kind than those guidebook writers and Christian ministers and guides whom Mark Twain had learned to distrust. The same mocking reality that gave this false leader the name Adams designated a Moses as their saviorMoses Beach of the New York Sun, who charitably paid their fares back to Maine. The second conclusion occurred when the party reached the Egyptian Sphinx.
Higbie prepares to leap into it. Will he make it? In the snowstorm, the party tries to start a fire with pistol shots, then discovers four matches. Each one is illuminated, then extinguished. It is all stimulating nonsense, carried on the crest of Twain's exuberance. Roughing It is a youthful book rather than a disconcerting pilgrimage in the company of sour patriarchs. The triumph of such apparently dangerous but actually benign occasions occurs in a poem, "The Aged Pilot Man" (332). It has the identical components of the other adventures: a storm, a terrified group of people who think themselves lost, and, in Dollinger, an indomitable leader.
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