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Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven was published as a Christmas gift book in October 1909, six months before Twain's death. Combining science fiction with a satiric look at conventional views of the afterlife, Twain delivers an amusing and trenchant commentary on human vanityand pretensions. Much of the humor of the story rests on the sharp discrepancies between Stormfield's cocksure expectations of heaven and its reality. The Captain discovers, for instance, that the planet Earth, far from being the "crown of creation," is merely one of countless planets sending itsdeparted inhabitants to the heavenly precincts. Indeed, we are so far from the center of things that it takes Stormfield 30 years of hurtling through space to get to heaven, only to find, when he arrives, that the head clerk cannot find our planet on his huge map. In his introduction, writerFrederik Pohl writes of this imaginative and thought-provoking story, "It's funny, it's colorful and it does the things that Twain intended it to do--one of them being to illustrate the silliness of the backwoods versions of Heaven and of religion in general."… (meer)
The old man (and the young one, too, I think) had learned a way to pluck the most preposterous things out of thin air and then throw them, off-handedly, into a crowd of people who are driven to laugh at the enormity of the old fart's flatulence. Had he lived a few years longer he could have written for Laurel & Hardy and gone to his grave a multi-millionaire. Maybe he did go to his rest in a coffin full of cash. I hope so. ( )
Amusing. I prefer Twain's view of heaven to that of any organized religion now extant. Twain just makes so much more sense. His heaven sounds way more kindly, more likely and way more fun. [Free E-Book available at Gutenberg.org and/or Archive.org] ( )
This is the shortened version of the story, finally published by Twain after years of tinkering, and I am rereading it for the umpteenth time. Of course, I prefer the longer version compiled from his notes by his first biographer and found in an out-of-print book called Report from Paradise, published by Harper & Brothers in 1952. Many versions are now available so grab one and read this story, short or long version!! It is my very favorite. LOVE IT! ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Well, when I had been dead about thirty years, I begun to get a little anxious.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Sandy said there would be a monument put up there, where Moses and Esau had stood, with the date and circumstances, and all about the whole business, and travellers would come for thousands of years and gawk at it, and climb over it, and scribble their names on it.
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven was published as a Christmas gift book in October 1909, six months before Twain's death. Combining science fiction with a satiric look at conventional views of the afterlife, Twain delivers an amusing and trenchant commentary on human vanityand pretensions. Much of the humor of the story rests on the sharp discrepancies between Stormfield's cocksure expectations of heaven and its reality. The Captain discovers, for instance, that the planet Earth, far from being the "crown of creation," is merely one of countless planets sending itsdeparted inhabitants to the heavenly precincts. Indeed, we are so far from the center of things that it takes Stormfield 30 years of hurtling through space to get to heaven, only to find, when he arrives, that the head clerk cannot find our planet on his huge map. In his introduction, writerFrederik Pohl writes of this imaginative and thought-provoking story, "It's funny, it's colorful and it does the things that Twain intended it to do--one of them being to illustrate the silliness of the backwoods versions of Heaven and of religion in general."
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