Mark Twain, Colorized

Mark Twain, colorized by zuzahin on Reddit

These colorized photos are eerie.  They give us the impression of being modern day, but all other visual and background information tells us they are from another era altogether.  There is art in this process for jarring us, if only moderately, into an alternative perception of reality.

I read `The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and `The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in junior high school, which was 40 years ago.  I hardly remember anything about these, except for the two boys' mischief and cleverness. Nowadays, though, it's just pithy quotes from Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) that wend their way on my Timelines.

There is razor to his wit

There is existential import to his wisdom

There is bipartisanship to his politics