Status Updates From A Connecticut Yankee in Kin...

The Yank describes the monks fondling the newspaper as a supernatural holy thing. Although Morgan speaks with irony, he is, in fact, accurate. The printing press was the greatest advancement in western civilization since the wheel.

This alteration of his inner sense when reading the abrasive newspaper shows the Yank has been affected more than his sense of superiority would have guessed. A revolutionary who finds that he enjoys the quality of an aristocratic tea.

The joke of the stupidity of inherited privilege is getting old. Still I wonder what Twain’s would think of the current assertions that the meritocracy which he lauds in America would in his own nation be branded as “racist” and a producft of the patriarchy.

well that was horrifying

satirical parody lampooning ivanhoe/everything by sir walter scott, the obsession with king arthur that was sweeping twain's america, and twain's america into the bargain. goodness but the american is a thundering ass, and twain really has it in for merlin.props for tthe idea of replacing the royal family with (royal) cats. and lancelot on a bicycle.