Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Flap a Day


As you know, I skim a different book flap every day for profound reasons that I no longer recall. Today's book flap is from the Oxford University Press series of Mark Twain first edition facsimiles. The volume in question: Twain's treatise CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. According to the flap, the book begins with "Twain's description of a man who falls off a cliff and finds his bones projecting from him like the arms of a hat rack." Awesome!