Extract From Captain Stormfields Visit to Heaven Review

Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven

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July eighteen, 2021

This was what was supposed to exist a humorous tale of a hurtle through space ending up in sky. Honestly, it felt callous and irreverent, non funny. Peradventure that'southward but me, merely I did not think it well written or well idea out.

3,769 reviews 280 followers

August 26, 2021

An enjoyable parody/commentary on several things including how people view Heaven, or glory civilization with some idea-provoking lines and descriptions. Definitely recommend to people interested in Twain'south work because this story illustrates nicely Twain'south creativity and story-telling ability.

20th-century one-act religion

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Edited January 10, 2015

I ever imagined Marker Twain as an eccentric older admirer, sitting in a rocking chair in Connecticut, smoking pipes, talking about steamboats, and taking weird selfies because his autobiography is full of them.

That's all truthful, of course, but the WTF-truth is that he was also contemplating expiry, the afterlife, and how information technology'southward all bullshit. And he wrote virtually it occasionally for forty years. And grudgingly published this Excerpt from it as a Christmas cozy because he was broke and needed coin.

Permit's all say it together: WTF.

Only, the results are amazing. Twain envisions a deceased steamboat Captain Stormfield riding a motorized comet to Heaven. Simply he overshoots, and lands in the wrong Heaven. In Conflicting Sky, humans are now the aliens, and treated as real weirdos who inquire for things like halos and wings. The "aliens" (not-earthlings) don't fifty-fifty know where Earth is, and have to wait it up in an intergalactic atlas. The LOL moment: inside the atlas, they notice that Earth is labeled as "Wart."

But, eventually, Stormfield makes information technology to the right Heaven, with all the hosannas and choruses and Praise Jeebus stuff... and he finds information technology very boring. And tiring. And he has all sorts of questions for some erstwhile-people friends he makes in Heaven.

The volume is a riot. Twain is e'er so flippant with the Holy Ghost, and information technology's groovy to meet it shining through, and unexpectedly in a Science-Fiction-y sort of way. I admire his bravery, his artlessness, and above all, his humour.

Buy this title from Powell'south Books.

254 reviews 159 followers

June iv, 2018

"I begin to run across that a man's got to be in his own Heaven to be happy."

"Perfectly correct," says he. "Did you imagine the same sky would suit all sorts of men?"

I came to know about this work of Samuel Clemens (which also happened to be his last work) from Kurt Vonnegut. I call up reading Vonnegut somewhere he mentioned a tailor from Tennessee named Billings who became a superior prophet to Shakespeare and Homer in the heaven after he died of hunger. He was able to write poems that powerful but his neighbors were too dumb to realise information technology. He never published anything in his entire life but the innate ability of his had got the reward information technology deserved, at least, from the writer's sanctimonious take on our tales of the heaven and related ideas. People from other worlds, the relativeness of heavenly routines and more secluded, misunderstood people similar Billings are packed into this brusk satirical tale. I wonder if they were really people like Billings used to live here. As Vonnegut used to say, he's up in sky at present. Pity them or pity u.s.?

fiction humor-parody short

2,157 reviews

March 31, 2012

Another from Twain. This one looks to be a fanciful tale...even the championship should tell the reader that. Begins:

"Well, when I had been dead nigh thirty years I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, had been whizzing through space all that time, like a comet. Similar a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the lot of them! Of course there warn't any of them going my style, as a steady matter, you know, because they travel in a long circle like the loop of a lasso, whereas I was pointed equally a dart for the Futurity; only I happened on one every now and so that was going my way for an hour or so, then we had a bit of a castor together."

He gets in a race with another comet, the captain of that one, yes, captain (and coiffure) throwing over some...brimstone was it?....to lighten the load, selection upwardly speed? Heh! And so, he gets to the bright lights only his course had strayed a bit and so he's entering by way of another door or gate.

Started this i last dark and I'm about 21% complete.

update
completed, finished, Saturday morning, 31 MAR 12, 9:39 a.1000. e.southward.t.

An entertaining take on heaven through Twain's optics, brusque and sugariness, no surprises other than one early on on, one of those passing through the customs, some Star Wars-like animate being...maybe it had iv heads and six legs, along those lines. But and so the good Captain is redirected toward the Wart's (earth is known as Wart in heaven) gate.

The story is initially told through the optics of Captain Eli Stormfield, addressing someone by the name of Peters....and so as he is redirected toward the right heaven, the story is told as a back-and-forth between Stormfield and an old bald-headed angel by the name of Sandy McWilliams, from somewhere in New Bailiwick of jersey.

Seems everyone is in attendance, Napoleon, Mahomet, Shakespeare and Sir Richard Duffer, Baronet, a nobleman from Hoboken. The greatest war machine genius our world (Wart) always produced was a brick-layer from somewhere back of Boston--died during the Revolution--past the proper noun of Absalom Jones.
Shakespeare and the remainder have to walk behind a common tailor from Tennessee, by the name of Billings...

Heh! This is from Twain, so it is a hoot. Light, entertaining read. And since all are present, how'd it exist possible for someone to be knocked off their feed?....unless they're of the mindset that they and their kind are to be the merely ones nowadays?

twain

1,229 reviews one,032 followers

Edited February iii, 2013

Second half is funnier than the first, but the whole affair is worth a read. Twain's satire of puny mortals' paradigm of Heaven contrasted with how information technology really is was hilarious. Highlights were the failed attempt to utilize the angel wings for flight (they're more for decorative purposes), the mistaken conventionalities that everyone'southward equal upwards there (hah, as if!), and the fact that in that location are billions of souls with nothing else to do then some new arrivals become a huge welcoming committee.

This was referenced in This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, that Twain wrote it during the Civil War when Heaven became a sort of comforting Victorian parlor, and cloying sentimentality drove that development. Just it wasn't published until 1908 or and then, at the end of Twain's life.

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364 reviews 8 followers

Dec ix, 2020

Oh my eye... this is one of the all-time books I've come across in a long time. What a riot information technology is. Only vivid and must've been pure sacrilege given the fourth dimension it was published. Plus, the language, absolutely fantastic.

So this expressionless dude (thirty years dead listen y'all), got bored hopping and galavanting around the galaxy and thinks it's time to get to heaven. Just the comet he takes a ride on takes a detour and lands in a dissimilar sky with millions of other beings from millions of other worlds where the Earth is referred to as a wart and humans are an unknown species. What a slap it must've been for anybody with that gullible belief of 'nosotros're the only ones in this whole bloody universe and at that place's only one heaven'.

All the same he finds the right heaven meant to exist for 'humans' and that is the best part of the whole book. The whole lot is in that location, of grade they all have ranks. All that ranking, hilarious and sarcastic to the core. Of course the heaven is just and gives their rightful place. Oh yes, emperors are walking behind bar keepers. What a sharp throw that is.

This this truly made my twenty-four hours. Sad it was the last book of Twain. A lovely little story to spend a couple of hours on. Twain truly knows how to write weird stuff in a very entertaining way. I just wish information technology was a bit longer.

Volume 66 of 2020

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Edited August 21, 2018

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Edited October 5, 2018

Brusk successful sacrilegious satire.

70 reviews 20 followers

March 29, 2008

Mark Twain is a hoot. He'south equally funny now equally he was then. Have you run out of Twain to read? Well, for some reason nobody but nobody has ever heard of or read this little jem. It is sacreligious in a most ingenious way. I would imagine even in its fourth dimension information technology didn't get protested or burned. It's funny if you're an athiest or religious.

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