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 >=20 >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. >=20 >Thanks very much. >=20 >____________________________________________ >Michael J. Kiskis >Leonard Tydings Grant Professor of American Literature >Elmira College >One Park Place >Elmira, NY 14901 >607-735-1827 >=20 >=20 >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