Open Access
American Research Journal of English and Literature
ISSN (Online): 2378-9026
DOI: 10.46568/arjel
Getting Spiritual with Mark Twain
Abstract
There is an old wise saying coming to us from remote antiquity, viz. ‘Better is one’s own water than other man’s wine”.
Most people, however, do not adhere to it but rather follow another diametrically opposed maxim “Better is other man’s
water than one’s own wine”. Modern Westerners seem to be unaware of the hidden spiritual treasure they dwell upon,
while incessantly seek to obtain treasure from some other side, mostly from Asian and Far Eastern traditions. Fortunately,
there was a man of great insight named Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who recorded and preserved some precious Western
treasure for posterity and eternity.
