I don't know the source in Mark Twain's work (if any), but
here is a snippet from a film Web page on the claymation
production of The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985):
Quotes:Becky Thatcher: Well, Tom and Huck and l, well, see,
we're not so sure...
Mark Twain: That l know what l'm doing up here? Angelfish,
it's just like piloting a river. You get to know the shape
of it. Like following a hall at home in the dark. And even
if you feel some fear, you know no harm can come to you
because you've traveled that hallway a hundred times in
nothing but bare feet and faith.
more
-http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088678/
---- Original Message -----
From: Alan Gribben <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Twain Quote
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:05:21 -0500
>Dear Michael,
>
>Twain's most famous account of being lost in a hotel room
>occurs in Chapter 8 of A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), but the exact
>quotation the teacher wants does not appear there. However
>, the passage is still very amusing: "I rose up and made
>staight for the door,--as I supposed,--and suddenly
>confronted my dim spectral image in the unbroken mirror.
>It startled the breath out of me, for an instant; it also
>showed me that I was lost, and had no sort of idea where I
>was."
>
>Regards,
>Alan
>Alan Gribben
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
>Of Michael Kiskis Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 8:24 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: FW: Twain Quote
>
>A little help. =20
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>I received a note from a local teacher who is working on a
>curriculum on Mark Twain for the 4th and 5th grades. She
>emailed me the note below looking for help to identify the
>quote. I admit that I can't recall where it (or if it)
>appears in any Twain work. =20
>If anyone has some idea, please let me know. And I will
>pass the response along.
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>Thanks very much.
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>____________________________________________
>Michael J. Kiskis
>Leonard Tydings Grant Professor of American Literature
>Elmira College
>One Park Place
>Elmira, NY 14901
>607-735-1827
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>I have been unable to find the Twain quote that I was
>asking about last night. I'll just paraphrase it and hope
>that someone out there will recognize it and be able to
>relay it back as the author intended it to be. I really
>appreciate your help.=20 =20
>' Like walking a hallway in the dark-- you've done it a
>hundred times before, with nothing but bare feet and faith.
>'
Thomas D. Zlatic
St. Louis College of Pharmacy
314 446-8451
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