Mark Twain Library Launches Web Site on 99th Anniversary of Twain's Death

And we didn't even know it!

We launched the revised web site: http://www.marktwainlibrary.org at 3pm today and it wasn't until 8pm that I realized today was a special day times two!

Sam died on April 21, 1910.

Life was not a valuable gift, but death was. Life was a fever-dream made up of joys embittered by sorrows, pleasure poisoned by pain; a dream that was a nightmare-confusion of spasmodic and fleeting delights, ecstasies, exultations, happinesses, interspersed with long-drawn miseries, griefs, perils, horrors, disappointments, defeats,humiliations, and despairs--the heaviest curse devisable by divine ingenuity; but death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man's best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.

- Letters from the Earth

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