by Mark Stone on Fri Apr 29, 2005 11:29 am
Almost 20 years ago I went to a live show of Mark Twain Tonight by Hal Holbrook. Next month he's going to do the show again here in my home town. Has anybody else seen it? He plays the character of Mark Twain and does quotes and quips from Twain's works, it's absolutely hilarious at times, moving at others. I already have my ticket --
It's through Holbrook that I heard Mark Twains theory of evolution. I believe it was first published in the New Yorker magazine, where Twain regularly contributed -- Twain was a contemporary of the Evolution proponents of the day. He said that the scientists had it [i]almost[/i] right, but corrected them: Man has not evolved up from the lower species; he has evolved downwards from the [i]higher[/i] species. Anyway, has anyone seen Holbrook do Twain? It's a great show.
--Mark:cool: