mark twain perked up when sawyer mentioned he was a steamboat engineer. the journalists, and danny boy who dreamed of shipping as a steamer or fireman, such a job he said knowingly has little drawbacks and the boiling steam room, he point out the furnace room where engineers standing in aerospace between two rose of furnaces which glare like the fires of hell and shoveled coal for four hours at a stretch. steamer and firemen did not live on average over five years. sawyer survive twice that long because he was a fireman in every sense of the word. extinguished fires and stokes fires to fury. the new furnaces in every aspect of combustion intimately. the strong bid for out the bigger the fire should be, he explained. his face lighting up in the clouds of steam as he warms to the topic. of the fire's sickness is kept even and no hollow places are allowed to form under it, the furnace temperature gradually increases until a certain breath of fuel reaches a state of brilliant white incandescence. you can tell temperature by the cold's, within a few degrees. d

mark twain's eyes squinted like an eagle. on this rainy afternoon in june of 1863, mark twain was nursing a bad hangover inside the montgomery street steam room. the journalists regularly went to this area to sweat out any dark thoughts of suicidal temptations which were not uncommon. tom sawyer's was the reason locl bona fide hero. in the clouds of steam, tom sawyer was mending his own words, though his work from a nearly fatal ordeal board a steamboat a decade earlier. in contrast to the lanky mark twain, tom sawyer was a stocky and round faced person. his repeated lies were comfortable to get into and his hair was a dark brown shock with sideburns. his body was smooth and his chest was hairless. without definition, though he could attack him and easily. mark twain's mustache and goatee were unimpressive. he wore a coat of smoke and soot, which is the three men played poker, to meet their bare feet, there was a secret tunnel. under that, a huge raft upon which the massive granite building floated. two doors down and a half

it was the first tom sawyer has seen mark twain looking plum. lucier new sure nobody, fiery hair, long, black looking cigar and soup strainer mustache. a rangy, lanky man, twain didn't really want, but hambleton slouched his rate through the muddy streets and back alleys of san francisco. his normal dresses careless and disheveled. it's closer on brushed and freckled with tobacco. though at this moment his chest a forest of matted hair on labeling from the arm of the chair. twain's eyes slanted like an evil beneath ranging, prowess. on this rainy afternoon of june, 1863, twain was nursing a bad hangover inside and sells fashionable montgomery street scene rooms halfway through what was intended to be a two-month visit to san francisco this stretched for years. the sleepwalking and melancholic journalists regularly went to the turkish testis without any suicidal temptations, which were not uncommon. at the back he played penny-ante with the proprietor, and stalin sawyer come in the recently customer inspectors, custom spec or, volunteer fireman a

it was the first tom sawyer had ever seen mark twain looking glum. sawyer studied the journalist; loose-jointed body with, coarse tumble of fiery hair, long, black, he'dal-looking cigar and soup stringer moustache. a rangy, lanky man, twain didn't really walk but ambled and slouched his way through the muddy streets and back alleys of san francisco. his normal dress was careless and disheveled. his clothings were unbrushed and freckled with tobacco, though at this moment he was nude, his chest a forest of matted hair with one leg lolling from the arm of the chair. twain's eyes glinted like an eagle's in his ranging, sopping brows. on this rainy afternoon in june, 1863, twain was nursing a bad hangover inside ed stall's fashionable montgomery street steam rooms halfway through what was intended to be a two month visit to san francisco that stretched to three years. the sleepwalking and melancholic journalist rue teently went to the steam bath to ford off suicidal temptations. he met sawyer, the recently-appointed customs inspector, volunteer fireman an

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also to go beyond that realm and say, "look, american literature is far more than hemmingway and mark twain." american literature is made of a number of different chambers, a number of different paths, and we can approach it from different perspectives. literature in the end is a mirror of how society has been seeing itself across time, and when you enter skip's anthology or when you enter the latino anthology, you're able to navigate through time and see the complexity of... of many moments that are coming together. >> hinojosa: all right, so let's start with... because there's a lot of history here and we want to cover a lot of things, but so what... what is an important moment in time for the both of you that where latino and african american literature kind of intersect? and before we get to the present, so an important moment in history? >> well, i can think of two: 1885 up to the turn of the century, many cuban intellectuals such as josé martí, the father of the revolution and the great... the bronze titan, antonio maceo, the leading general of the cuban revolution. the biggest statue

they all say mark twain. who has a bigger impact? a literary figure or political figure? when it is really the driving circumstance. >> it is advertising. >> i always insisted putting advertising in the random house books whether be for pharmaceuticals but when you take something like said james bond novel what is the car that he drives? what champagne does he drink? of course, you know, that. the aston martin that is of famous british racing car but that is in the book but if i would offer them the advertisement and ian fleming used to work the mine newspaper what is wrong with it? >> but the state's actually banned advertising. but it offended many writers. but what that has turned into you will find a corporate partners. i worked with to watch because if you take any opportunity then media works with partners with the of liquor they are looking for the market so you will find that type the support so that is really surprised. >> but that is not your. random house will advertise in your books author stage often by the same author. >> but the health care@ often by the sa

mark twain. who is the bigger impact? a literary figure a political figure? very interesting. we think politics is a society. really literature is the powerful driving circumstance. >> the institution was not mentioned. always assisted putting advertising in random house books. whether it be for pharmaceuticals. you take something like ian fleming's novel, james bond everybody, how does james bond drive to make the aston martin. of course. the aston martin. .. the mint used bookstores. there was in fact things which offended many riders and there is a no add clause you might recall that exists throughout. when i was an agent time worked to launch one book through and add trace they had done with the new yorker because you take any opportunity you can. the media really works with partners, particularly in liquor because they are looking for an up market audience and a reader of books is that allegedly of mark and audience. you will find that type of support there, but i don't think the numbers are really satisfying to advertising companies unless it is grisham. >> the reason i

in in the end the best books we have -- i didn't give them mark twain immediately or charles dickens. i gave them abridgments of treasure island, which were no longer available. i would have liked to have done that when i was a publisher, so what can you do with mr. leach to actually make the reading experience and excitement for the children? there is all the argument that they should look and see and fanatics in all this but how can you actually get that assignment. obviously you have to go through all the fanatics stuffed it up when you get to children's books -- when i is the father, and i still am a father. [laughter] i found that very frustrating. what can you do about that? >> the challenge to young people is very terrific and i think we have to bring back our former speaker, or our ambassador. my wife is a children's book writer and she writes in art history. she finds it's enormously help to involve the visual. in fact, at the youngest ages, the great books are pictures with a few words and then they get more and more sophisticated in the sense of fewer pictures and more word

don't go overboard but just something simple like not since mark twain. [laughter] i am not here to boast but the only fault with the introduction he did not mention was the first novel ever written. i regret to say there has not been a bandwagon of people trying to right novels since then. i thought i would talk since "dogfight" is a result of what we call deadline poetry. talk about "deadline poet" poet", some years ago with an author's guild benefit there is a program organized in which 45 authors rejected famous works of literature. [laughter] garrison himself rejected on walden pond he said there was a lot of good axioms but the structure was weak and suggested making it into a calendar. [laughter] i rejected the wasteland by t.s. eliot. [laughter] it was with iambic pentameter and i know it was a blow but not to worry your still the greatest poet from missouri. [laughter] how faint that praise is. to be judged by the fact the other poet from misery is me. sometimes i say t.s. eliot and i are the reserve school of poetry. [laughter] we do have differ

it is like mark twain saying they are just not make anything more of it.any people can gather 2 million acres anywhere in the world. >> farming is hard and i'm lazy. >> but if you're a billionaire, you get other people to dot tractor work. >> and i can get a pumpkin named after me. >> you will be flying around in your helicopter. >> right. that's mine. that's mine. >> coming up next -- >> come back kid. some of the most beaten down stocks earlier this year are coming back this quarter in a big way. we will dive into two of them. netflix and first solar coming up. >> and checking in on herbalife. bill ackman came out with a short position and said it was a pyramid scheme. we are seeing the stock moving down by nearly 10%. we are following this story and continuing on this developing story here for you on cnbc. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. executor of efficiency. you can spot an amateur from a mile away... while going shoeless and metal-free in seconds. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle...a

for those of you which is just not enough to prove it and go back to the books of mark twain and other people who visit israel and show historically connection between jews and israel. you cannot prove the connection of palestinians to israel. but if that's not enough, i am talking about the legal rights here in the room and was a legal document with the declaration in 1920, you've understood the legal right, international binding legal rights of jews. but there is something else, which i have not found elsewhere when i wrote the book and i call it common sense right. when you go to a war and when they were come you don't give a lens. what's happening out is we won the war. you've come to us and say, you know what? i want my land back. even out here in the u.s., when you're her with mexico, nobody came to a told you you know what, we thus the word. the common sense is sent to which we say very quickly and our neighbor should note that if we start another war with us, they will not get any price for it on the contrary if you lose, you lose. i think talking about the racism thing very im

played a part in the capture of a serial arsonist and san francisco and became friends with author mark twain over drinks and cards and his childhood stories became immortalized in mr. twins books. it all happens tonight on c-span2 book tv. >> so i was thinking about the word to describe your book. i finished reading it. and the only word that came to my mind, and i have to confess, i never used this word, as i was a little bit uncertain, magisterial. the scope, dips, authority of the book was just really pretty staggering in terms of what your government. a lot of wonderful topics that people like me resonate to. net 1951, questions about derivatives, all sorts of questions and issues that about class stiegel. pretty interesting in terms of the depth and the capability of thinking about those issues. it turns out there should be careful using the word magisterial because i had to look it up. it means both authoritative and pedantic, don't mean it in that sense. >> i would like to start. often multinational corporations populated by the states and all depends on many states to see it , see to

mark twain once said history does not repeat itself, but it's sometimes rhymes. i think that summarizes what we are trying to do. with a fiscal cliff approaching and leaders working to explore an agreement that would avoid an economic free fall while securing progress in securing the long-term debt, we will go back in time to better understand the better prospects. we will look at the last time both parties joined together in a bipartisan summit. the 1997 brought all key players, members and staff in what resulted in a successful five-year agreement. congressional democrats and george bush agreed on a package saving over $500 billion over five years. they locked in discipline for the future by achieving major process reforms including an adoption of discretionary spending caps on the mandatory revenue sides of the budget. there were doubts about whether it could be done. skepticism always flourishes when the stakes are high and leaders are presented with hard choices. congress rejected the first proposal, but they persevered to complete the project. we will be he

you are the will rogers/mark twain of our generation and i am serious. you are great, so thank you.[applause] >> i think of myself more like shania twain but okay. [laughter] >> hi, greg. thank you for coming. >> i think i'm a little taller than you are. >> everybody's a little taller than me. >> thank you for bringing it up though. do you have a question and besides talking about my height? >> is not a serious question but i was watching and i'm wondering from this particular show if you -- you were talking to your group and you said you wanted to use the phrase fiscal cliff and he slipped and said something else that i will not say. i just want to know if anybody else caught it besides me? >> a lot of people did. you know, okay if you do two shows a day, that is going to happen. and by the way i'm not even sure what i said. but there are two versions of it. there is one that is profane and there is one that is really biological. it was such an obvious slip of the tongue. [laughter] this is the reagan library, people. you make me sick. >> real quick, we will go appear on the balcon

there's that good feeling that the one voice that makes us laugh -- and you are the will rogers/mark twain of our generation, and i'm serious because you're great. [applause] so thank you. >> i think of myself more like shania twain, but okay. [laughter] >> over here. >> hi, greg. thank you for coming. >> my pleasure. >> both you and i are not so tall, but that's okay, we're big in spirit. >> i think i'm a little taller than you are. >> yeah, you are. everybody's a little taller than me. >> thanks for bringing it up though. [laughter] do you have any questions asides from my height? >> i do. [laughter] i was watching "the five" the other night, and i'm wondering if you got an avalanche of e-mails. you were talking to your group, and you said you wanted to use the phrase "fiscal cliff." and you, and you slipped and said something else that you won't say, but i just wandered if anybody -- wondered if anybody caught it besides me. >> a lot of people did. [laughter] okay, if you do two shows a day, that's going to happen. and, by the way, i'm not even sure what i said. [laughter] but there are

before that, i was -- one of the jobs was the liaison at the spanish university giving talks on mark twainz, and stuff like that at various spanish universities, but the embassy was cozy with the government because they wanted the bases there. this was the cold war, and it was very cold at that time, and the cuban missile crisis too. these bases were important to the united states government, and when i first got to spain, as a matter of fact, we had b-49s on the bases outside of madrid, next to the airport, and it was there, and another near, and there was a little one near there as well, and we had the b-49s there, and so in the middle of the time i was in spain, we brought in the b-52s that came online, and the b-49s retired, and the b-52s had a much longer range, and so we didn't have to keep them on the soil. these are the planes or the bombs, and the schwa -- squadrons took off from bases in the eastern united states, and when it got to the coast of spain, a -- three tankers would meet the planes, and each one would top off the tank, the fuel tank of the b-52s, and it would then -- i

still mark twain rumored to be long distant cousin. he said to the right thing to gratify some people and astonish the rest. i think mark twain should figure that out and add-on it makes a few people pretty angry. about ten days ago i did something in kansas that we do normally come in and that is to keep our word and put the video and reaffirm my pledge that seems to controversial seems other members of the house our representatives. but i tell you i meant it. there's a pledge to 700,000 that are firmly believed washington is taking too much of your money. and so let's take our pledge. at the end of my pew in church the other day was the man whose name is tony. and here is what is going to have been an american packaging in kansas he isn't going to hire two more people next year. the tax increases don't create jobs. the president would love republicans, it's not about the tax revenue and he wants republicans to violate the principles to admit the failed economic policies are the result of the they can't go down that road, we can't put

those of, for instance, richard ford or robert frost or even mark twain. this is a quote.lease concentrate... you can cut official corners to call a man out but couldn't walk in a man's house unless ininvited or else with a warrant. it was the way he was raced, with good manners. back when he was living in the coal camp and miners struck, raylan walking a picket line, his dad in the house dying of black lung, and a couple came across the street, with pick handles, and walked up to where his mother was on the porch. they said they wanted to speak to her brother. she told them, you don't walk in a person's home unless your invited, even you people must believe that. you have homes, don't you? wifes and mothers keeping house? they shoved her aside and hit raylan with a pick handle to put him down. her words hadn't stopped them. what they did was stick in raylans mind. her words, her quiet tone of voice, stopped him more than 20 years later from breaking into this man's house. i said mr. len nerd was a genre writer but this is a technicality. it cannot hold him. as we crown el

mark twain once said that news of my death has been greatly exaggerated. since the spring of 2011, that was probably the case for the assad regime of syria. but in the last couple of months, we have seen things changing. we see robling territory, not just attacking and retreating, but actually holding ground. we have seen the russians equivocating on their support for the assad regime. and we have even seen regime insiders, of the syrian vice- president saying yesterday that the regime cannot win militarily. so the end may finally near for the assad regime, but many questions remain. what would a post-assad government look like? would it be tolerant of the many minority groups in syria? despite the fall of the regime, it has been very tolerant of minorities, except for the kurds. and there's a lot of fear among minorities about what will take place when the assad regime falls. and what happens to the syrian state as a whole? will it break apart? this is not beyond the realm of possibilities. will the aloite community returned to the hills and tried to begi