 When Hank does initiate this instantaneous push-button war, “in that explosion all our noble civilization-factories went up in the air and disappeared from the earth” (476). Beyond an electrified fence, the technowarriors have prepared a forty-foot-wide...  Vietnam and Other American Fantasiesby Howard Bruce Franklin - 2000 - 256 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Mark Twain - Americans - 1917 - 494 pages
...step in the plan of campaign! I touched a button, and shook the bones of England loose from her spine! In that explosion all our noble civilization-factories...went up in the air and disappeared from the earth. It was a pity, but it was necessary. We could not 433 A CONNECTICUT YANKEE afford to let the enemy... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1917 - 488 pages
...step in the plan of campaign! I touched a button, and shook the bones of England loose from her spine! In that explosion all our noble civilization-factories...went up in the air and disappeared from the earth. It was a pity, but it was necessary. We could not afford to let the enemy turn our own weapons against... | |
 | Mark Twain - American literature - 1917 - 480 pages
...step in the plan of campaign! I touched a button, and shook the bones of England loose from her spine! In that explosion all our noble civilization-factories...went up in the air and disappeared from the earth. It was a pity, but it was necessary. We could not afford to let the enemy turn our own weapons against... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1917 - 474 pages
...in the plan of campaign! I touched a button, and shook the bones of England loose from her spine ! In that explosion all our noble civilization-factories...went up in the air and disappeared from the earth. It was a pity, but it was necessary. We could not afford to let the enemy turn our own weapons against... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1917 - 488 pages
...step in the plan of campaign! I touched a button, and shook the bones of England loose from her spine! In that explosion all our noble civilization-factories...went up in the air and disappeared from the earth. It was a pity, but it was necessary. We could not affced to let the enemy turn our own.weaponsagaii... | |
 | Robert J. Scholnick - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 304 pages
...instantaneous push-button war, his rationalization is appallingly ominous for late-twentieth-century readers: “In that explosion all our noble civilization-factories...went up in the air and disappeared from the earth. It was a pity, but it was necessary” (476). For the readers of 1889, this devastating electric impulse... | |
 | George Edgar Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 236 pages
...built over the course of his years in old England. As the attack begins, “I touched a button. . . . In that explosion all our noble civilization-factories...went up in the air and disappeared from the earth. It was a pity, but it was necessary. We could not afford to let the enemy turn our own weapons against... | |
 | Susan Jeffords, Lauren Rabinovitz - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 364 pages
...single command button so that nothing can stop them “when we want to blow up our civilization.” 10 When Hank does initiate this instantaneous push-button...prepared a forty-foot-wide belt of land mines. The first wave of thousands of knights triggers a twentieth-century style explosion: “As to destruction... | |
 | Mark Twain - Fiction - 1994 - 1068 pages
...step in the plan of campaign! I touched a button and shook the bones of England loose from her spine! In that explosion all our noble civilization-factories...went up in the air, and disappeared from the earth. It was a pity, but it was necessary. We could not afford to let the enemy turn our own weapons against... | |
 | Mark Twain - Adaptations - 1998 - 404 pages
...along the ground lay a thick wall of smoke that hid what was left of the multitude from our sight. In that explosion all our noble civilization-factories...went up in the air and disappeared from the earth. It was a pity, but it was necessary. We could not afford to let the enemy turn our own weapons against... | |
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