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To the Person Sitting in Darkness

By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Richard Henzel
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Mark Twain, incensed by increasing religious and political imperialism around the globe, characterizes a large nation's invasion and occupation of a smaller country as the "strange and over-showy onslaught of an elephant upon a nest of field mice, on the pretext that the mice had squeaked an insolence at him conduct which 'no self-respecting government could allow to pass unavenged' as Mr. Chamberlain said. Was that a good pretext in a small case when it had not been a good pretext in a large one?- for only recently Russia had affronted the elephant three times and survived alive and unsmitten."

Public Domain (P)2019 Richard Henzel/Jennie Henzel
Classics Literature & Fiction Satire World Comedy Elephant
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