by Mark Twain
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He has read up, now, & knows all about papa & about Christ's great sacrifice for the Presbyterians. Admires Christ deeply. Likes to go to Church & SS & listen-at first. But quits, because they say such things about papa & his place.
He didn't know, before, that people suffered in Hl, & he does[n]'t feel it or appreciate it now. Is it the way the spectacle of a misdone Euclid problem makes one feel? "Oh, the feelings are not at all the same." 'Well, to me the pains of hell must remain a mere phraseno meaning."
Has read the (300) 600 books, now, 300,000 pages in 160 hours of actual reading-he doesn't sleep, but loses time talking & at meals. This education has occupied him 10 days.
He can n't A feel (sudden) anger, (like an animal, but can't hold it;) can't conceive of the spirit of revenge; nor of avarice, nor of
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hoarding, nor of envy, nor of "ambitions" of any kind; nor of jealousies; nor of adulations; nor of obsequiousnesses; (to monarchs or any) nor of slaveries; nor of humilities; (admix) thinks well of the cat because she is the only independent; says there is no such thing as an independent human being-all are slaves; no such thing as freedom of thought freedom of opinion, freedom in politics & religion
Man is a poor thing; but if he can get back his original innocence he will be fine & worthy. [sidelined]
44 can love, like dog & others; & trust, like dog & others.
Praises of him he cannot understand-they are due to his Maker solely, (he)-bring this forward at ONCE.
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The sense of humor-what is that-in the books? Is rejoiced to find (he) it is in him, though in a sort of atrophied condition; but knows that even the smallest seed can be developed.
When they laughed in school he didn't understand it-had never heard a laugh before. Thinks it w° improve heaven & his part of hell to import it.
And he couldn't understand the teacher's praise of his modesty; why should he [be] vain of his gifts & take credit for them?-they came from his Maker.
Group E
These notes consist of four consecutively numbered half-sheets of Joynson Superfine paper in black ink. E-2 is on the verso of a canceled p. 67 of the "Schoolhouse Hill" manuscript. The notes must have been written after that page was discarded.
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(Nephew) Son of Satan.
This world was 2 M yrs ago.
Man has been in it 7,000 yrs.
Remember seeing it made.
Satan ate the apple (& acquired not the knowledge of good & evil for he had that before, but the disposition to do evil (-as the sparks to fly upward or the water to run down hill.
(He) Adam acquired the Moral Sense from the apple in a diseased form-insanity of mind & body; it decayed his body, filled it with disease-germs, & death resulted.
The angels have the Moral Sense, but not in diseased form-just the other way, the healthy way, disposition to avoid evil & dislike it. They are sane,
I was born in heaven; my (father is an) uncles are archangel n s n, but it is
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is no particular distinction; we have no rank-ambitions-care nothing for them.
Heaven is merely for God & the angels-these exist in billions-& for the people from this world. It is so recent that you see few; the Christians are so very recent that I ran across none.
Hell is solely for this world-the other Adams did not eat the apple, & the people & the animals never die. The animals in Heaven came from here-there are none in hell.
Satan has been in hell but 7 days, now; I have not seen him for 6 months (150,000 years). (n I am so sorry for him-it is dreary there. n)
Our hour is about 412A of your years.
I have (myriads of) several thousand brothers & sisters in hellborn since the Fall; I & (another) a myriad were born before the Fall. We often go & play with those others, but they
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can't come to see us. They can come to me here, & they like to; will serve me gladly. It gives them a holiday & they cool off. They have horns, A spiked n tail & hoof, like papa. They are a part of the disease. They like to do wrong, I suppose-in fact they must, since they, like papa & you are morally & mentally insane. A Satan's original host have large families n
If you could only get rid of the Moral Sense-& he!-& be like the animals; they haven't it, & Adam hadn't it. If you & he could be like the animals. The apple diseased his moral body & he feels the fire-he & Adam could not feel pain before, but only pleasure. I cannot feel pain either of body or mind, but only pleasure.
I have an intellectual (knowledge) notion of what pain is, (but) & an intellectual compassion for a sufferer, but as I don't know what pain is I can't feel the compassion. I am intellectually sorry for comets that are lost, but I cannot cry about it. No doubt you can.
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The redeemed in heaven-I will go & hunt one up & see what he is like. Ah-he is (disappointed.) happy. Has lost the moral sense & is like the animals--& like the angels, who know evil but dislike it.
I find they are just like the immortals in the other planets.
I am No. 45 in in n New n series n 9 A 86,000,000. I have seen all my brothers & sisters at one time or another, & know them by Number & features. There are some billions of them-all in heaven except the few (millions) thousands born in hell in the past 7 days.
Group F
These notes are on two sheets of Joynson Superfine paper in black ink. They were written during the composition of "Schoolhouse Hill," but cannot be dated more precisely.
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Mrs. Hooker & John A 's A (Mr. & Mrs Horr) "Control" told them what to eat, drink, think, believe (& so they had (become) quit Presby-before,) (they) & what to wear & how to vote. Mrs. H's self-sufficiency & talent, John's docility, & absence of any special talent except utter belief in his w;fe & God.
The Unbeliever A Bob Ingersoll (Ira Jepson), (vain of it-just as the ex-Cath priest (very few Irish) was vain of his desertion & courage, & was around telling the secrets of the priestly charnel-house to crowded (gratis) houses
Better get up a Catechism. Yes, 44 will do it. And it is printed: "Conscience" &c
Bring in corpses & examine microbes
Pass all the animals through, devils riding.
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A Swedenborgian A
Report that Ferg., Meadows, & Major were drunk-hence the amazing reports. A These men are not believed & they lose character A 44 disappears, after catechism is printed & distributed-leaves the leaven to work & be discussed. It is attacked in conversation (pulpit?); some think successfully, some not. 44 as its author presently ignored -he does not exist, except in those drunken imaginations-Major must be the author. His denials are doubted.
"Go to bed & rest-begin next night; he will bring the others every night & take them back, per little devils. Meantime he will inspect the world daytimes & devour libraries for ten days.
Group G
This group of miscellaneous notes consists of five half-sheets of Joynson Superfine paper, written in pencil with additions in black ink. The additions in ink are rendered in boldface type.
G-1, G-2 (on the verso of G-1), and G-4 were grouped with the "Chronicle" working notes by DeVoto but both physical and internal evidence seem to place them with the notes for "Schoolhouse Hill."
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Your Napoleons want a fame which shall remain in this potatoe after they have ascended into
I was present when some of the vast suns were swung out to light this potatoe
You say killing is wrong & persuasion right-& you spend all your money on wars & none on arbitration.
You punish attempted suicides-whereas if a man owns anything at all (according to your own scheme of life) it is his life-a foolish possession
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you call life a gift to be grateful for-a boon-y
ou mean the opposite
you generally decide that a suicide-the only tolerably sane person among you-is temp. insane.
Your silly race is the despair of the few wise-& otherwise; but you all try to hide it-(& y) you call Pessimist names. You are all insane.
You speak admiring of the innocence of the lamb, yet w° not be innocent on the same terms
Papa ate apple & has moral sense
But none of us ch'n-(for we)
Like Adam he disobeyed like a dog & with a dog's merely intellectual conception of the guilt (& that is worthless-you have to feel a thing to comprehend it-there is no thought
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A Fortunatus purse-get anything out of pocket n
[sketch of thermometer]
In what do you differ from a thermo-a hand on you[r] ball will raise you, but you can't put the hand there, & it would not be possible for you to originate the idea of wishing you would put it thereit must come from outside.
Devil's Sunday-School
The ?s & answers of "Conscience."
D` Wheelwright-(Phis) It is my opinion that there is [something] supernatural about this
His wife nods her h[e]ad as much as to say there-now you've got the explanation
Sign of X-(crow) not afraid of it.
Approves the Savior (as GOd)A -praises him. A
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Adam's birth was 8500 million years ago.
(Why am I a boy at 5,000,000?)
The race has not changed a single shade in that time.
Ad would disobey-so w° you; Cain was jealous; so are you; a (murderer) homicide-one in a family, for he had [s]isters-the mu[rder] average is the same to-day-3 in 10 of the men before me are murderers-100 present-the adultery committed by the eye is adultery-(murder) homicide committed by wish is homicide
A Ranks. A Your redeemed w(ore)ear crowns, aureoles, halos, for you are a childish lot & delight in vanities for the eye as glass beads delight savages. Your new Jerusalem & your pearly gates & so onrather loud taste. And the music there!
You haven't changed one shade, in tastes or otherwise in 8500 million yrs.
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Annie plays music-he suffers-finds her at home when he gets there. Then he plays?
Savage dog. Animals were Adam's loving servants. And so are his n Talks with them. A [halfcircled]
He is made of air. A Loaded the cat. A [circled]
When sense of humor is complete, he does the materializing at seances.
For the moment, Hotch is spiritualist, but not his Presbyterian wife.
Describe H's, Annie, Aunt Rachel & Uncle Jeff.
A His church prospers-for they don't take up a collection. Also, he gives away money freely. A [in left margin]
Chess, cards, checkers,-stocking the cards. Drawing, painting.
He quickly learns to talk with Tom Nash, then improves on the system.
Electricity A Pipes-cigars. A [halfcircled]
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Bring slathers of little red, A behind, cooling devils to print ms Bible &
feed the whole town n (cold plate from cubboard to sit on n pants-monev-
-touch of love—
blizzard-
Bible-sermons--dialogues-in Appendix
No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger
Group A
These notes, on a single sheet of glossy pearl-gray Par Value tablet paper, are in the same dark blue ink as the first 171 pages of the manuscript and were probably written during their composition.
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Notes.
Whenever a thing is large n & bragable n, "Sho, you ought to see it in Sirius."
Whenever it is "advanced" Lord, you ought to see it in (get that name from Lady Duff Gordon.)
These snubs make me tired,-& Doan too.
I visit those places with 44.
44 hunts maj [magician] constantly with miracles-Satan comeshe takes the credit at first; then too late tries to get out of it.
He is burned at the stake (it is 44 in disguise).
Appears again-is destroyed in various ways, keeps coming to life.
Group B
This group of notes consists of six glossy buff-colored tablet sheets approximately 9" by 53/4", numbered consecutively, in the hand of Isabel V. Lyon. The notes were dictated some time after mid-November 1902 when she became Mark Twain's secretary and probably before the composition of the third chapter of "No. 44."' Spelling errors have been silently emended. The first two items, in Mark Twain's hand, in dark blue ink, have been rendered in boldface type.
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Jesus! said Father Adolf. [in top left corner]
A drunken, armored knight.
A dethroned King in the cellar.
Pi.
Hell box.
Towel.
Strap oil.
Barty contributes money and is repaid.
I am told on and my trouble begins.
I explain to him what to do without speaking.
I shirked going to his room that night.
Some one propagates the suspicion that I am his friend.
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Fischer and others begin to lean toward him, and I venture to say a good word to them for him.
There should have been a carouse in 44's honor that night.
A conspiracy is brewing during several days against the master.
I pick up the facts from Fischer & Co.
The idea is to ruin him, oust him and put some one in his place.
44 is persecuted in all ways the first day.
At last Blume strikes him.
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That is more than Fischer can stand.
Ile resents it.
That classes him with 44's friend, and the count begins to divide.
I privately work upon Fischer through Mar.
Some time Mar. and Maria will begin to be attracted toward 44.
Father Peter and his niece must come in here somewhere.
And perhaps the conspirators will purposely or by accident betray
the printing shop to Father Adolf.
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Getting used to being in the opposition.
And finding a sort of support in Fischer.
I lose the bulk of my fears, and consort with 44 by night but not by day.
I am astonished to find that he is quite willing to kill a good man.
Thinks it would be doing him a favor.
But spares Ernest-and all vicious men.
Because they did not make themselves.
And are not to blame for what they are and do.
They are entitled to large compassion.
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I always find it impossible to budge him from that position.
Or get him to feel an insult or an injury.
The master's influence wanes little by little.
Perhaps by and by the magician will take the head of the table.
He is heavy hearted.
And finds solace in teaching 44.
44 explains what one's DreamSelf is.
Maria and her mother are feeling strong enough now.
To try again to oust Mar. and
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her mother.
44 will take a hand.
Group C
This group of notes, in the hand of Jean Clemens, is on four Par Value tablet sheets, with writing on both the verso and the recto. The notes follow the second chapter of "No. 44," with a few omissions and changes in wording. Presumably Mark Twain dictated this passage to Jean for reference and omitted material not of immediate use. The changes are proposed shifts of plot direction. Jean's spelling, punctuation, and capitalization have been regularized. Later penciled corrections and additions by Mark Twain have been rendered in boldface type.
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Heinrich Ste
in, the master, was portly, of a grave and dignified carriage, with a large & benevolent face & calm deep eyes-a patient man whose temper could stand much before it broke. His head was bald, with a valance of silky white hair hanging around it, his face was clean shaven, his raiment was good & fine, but not rich. He was a scholar, & a dreamer & thinker, & loved learning & study, & would have submerged his mind all the days & nights in his books & been pleasantly & peacefully unconscious of his surroundings, if God had been willing. His complexion was younger than his hair; he was four or five years short of sixty.
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A large part of his surroundings consisted of his wife. She was well along in life, and was long & lean & flat-breasted, & had an active & vicious tongue & a diligent & devilish spirit, & more religion than was good for her, considering the quality of it. She hungered for money, & believed there was a treasure hid in the black deeps of the castle somewhere; & between fretting & sweating about that & trying to bring sinners nearer to God where any fell in her way she was able to fill up her time and save her life from getting uninteresting & her soul from getting mouldy. There was old tradition for the treasure, and the word of
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Balthasar Hoffman thereto. He had come from a (great) A long n way off, & had brought a great reputation with him, which he concealed (fro) in our family the best he could, for he had no more ambition to be burnt by the Church than another. He lived with us on light salary & board, & worked the constellations for the treasure. He had an easy berth & was not likely to lose his job if the constellations held out, for it was Frau Stein that hired him; & her faith in him, as in all things she had at heart, was of the staying kind. Inside the walls, where was safety, he clothed himself as Egyptians and magicians should, & moved stately, robed in black velvet starred & mooned (& velveted) & cometed & sun'd with the symbols of his trade done in silver, & on his head a conical tower with A like n symbols glinting from it. When he at intervals went outside he left his business suit behind, with good discretion, & went dressed like anybody else & looking the Christian etc. Very naturally we were all afraid of him-abjectly so, I suppose I may say-though
