The Diaries of Adam & Eve

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Mark Twain's The Diaries of Adam and Eve. Humorous take about how human life began.

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English

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Young Adult (18-35)

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The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain, read by Kathleen France Saturday I am almost a whole day old now. I arrived yesterday. That is as it seems to me, and it must be so for if there was a day before yesterday, I was not there when it happened or I should remember it. It could be, of course, that it did happen and that I was not noticing very well. I will be very watchful now. And if any day before yesterday's happen, I will make a note of it. It will be best to start right and not let the record get confused. For some instinct tells me that these details are going to be important to the historian someday. For I feel like an experiment. I feel exactly like an experiment. It would be impossible for a person to feel more like an experiment than I do. And so I am coming to feel convinced that that is what I am. An experiment, Justin experiment and nothing war. Oh, Then if I am an experiment, Am I the whole of it? No, I think not. I think the rest of it is part of it. I am the main part of it. But I think the rest of it has its share in the matter. Is my position assured, or do I have to watch it and take care of it? The latter? Perhaps some instinct tells me that eternal vigilance is the price of supremacy. That is a good phrase, I think. For one so young, I followed the experiment around yesterday afternoon at a distance to see what it might be. Four if I could, but I was not able to make out. I think it is a man I had never seen a man, but it looked like one, and I feel sure that that is what it is. I realized that I feel more curiosity about it than about any of the other reptiles if it is a reptile and I suppose it is, for it has Frau Z hair and blue eyes and looks like a reptile. I was afraid of it at first and started to run every time it turned around, for I thought it was going to chase me, but by and by, I found it was only trying to get away. So after that, I was not timid anymore, but tracked it along several hours, about 20 yards behind, which made it nervous and unhappy. At last, it was a good deal. Worried and climbed a tree. I waited a good while, then gave it up and went home. Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again. It is up there yet resting. Apparently it has low tastes and is not kind. When I went there yesterday evening in the gloaming, it had crept down and was trying to catch the little speckled fishes that play in the pool. And I had to Claude it to make it go up the tree again and let them alone. I wonder if that is what it is. Four. Hasn't it any heart, hasn't it compassion for those little creatures? Can it be that it was designed and manufactured for such a kn gentle work? It has the look of it. One of the Claude's took it back of the ear, and it used language. Oh, it gave me a thrill, for it was the first time I had ever heard speech except my own. I did not understand the words, but they seemed expressive. And when I found it could talk, I felt a new interest in it. For I love to talk. I talk all day and in my sleep too. And I am very interesting. But if I had another to talk to, I could be twice as interesting and would never stop if desired. If this reptile is a man, it isn't an it is it That wouldn't be grammatical, would it? I think it would be he