Funny Bliss
Posted October 3, 2008
on:Funny Bliss (1998)
Twain is a funny guy.
He was frustrated, at fourteen, with his father’s ignorance.
At twenty, how dumb struck he felt
That his father could be such a quick learner.
I was thirteen and I wrote:
“What do I know?”
My old French teacher loved it.
He said the French essayist Montaigne used it.
At fifty, I said:
“I feel I know nothing”.
My thirteen year old niece skewered her eyes and mumbled:
“I am embarrassed, what a loser!”
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