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Do you feel that you no longer know anything?
Posted by: adonis49 on: July 15, 2020
Do you feel that you no longer know anything?
Note: Re-edit of “Funny Bliss. (Written in 1998 and posted on October 3, 2008″
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 in my essay:
“What do I know?” (Que sais-je?”
My old French Jesuit 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!”
Funny Bliss
Posted by: adonis49 on: July 8, 2016
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!”
Funny Bliss: What do I know?
Posted by: adonis49 on: September 25, 2008
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Funny Bliss (Written in 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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