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Mark Twain

posted 16 years ago by Coateskiddo9
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I had no idea that this genre of storytelling was started by Mark Twain with his novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, I’ve seen so many takes on this story with the protagonist time traveling to an ancient society and taking with him/her modern technologies and ideas never knowing where it got it’s start, until I wiki'ed this movie (I wikipedia almost everything)

I find the novel to be significant and everything that followed including this movie to be insignificant.

"I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!"

[–] topherwriter 16 years ago

You know what, I noticed this too. I was wondering if it was based on that the first time I heard of that book. Thanks for posting this because I was looking at this to see if it was somehow based on that novel. I've never read the novel, but I've heard the title, and I wondered if it was based off of it.

[–] TannerDVader 15 years ago

Go wiki yourself a job.

"The day your born, your already dead."

[–] Quiet_Cookie 15 years ago

Go wiki yourself a better comeback.

Its better to burn out than fade away.

[–] gargnob 15 years ago

Where/how does one get a job through Wikipedia?

I'm serious, I'm unemployed, and the hoops the unemployment office forces me to jump through are back breaking!

[–] Coateskiddo9 13 years ago

Get ready for a comeback 2 years in the making.

I hope ur a victim of the recession so u can go wiki urself a job.

I could push your face in some dough and make gorilla cookies.

[–] SatoriforSale 12 years ago

There are quite a few Arthurian stories that indicate that Merlin himself travelled, or rather aged, backwards through time. His knowledge of the future and it's technology made him appear to have magical powers. Or to quote Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
This vision of Merlin is even hinted at in Mallory...

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