First, sorry for cross-posting to those who are on both Twain-L and Amlit-L. I'll be teaching Twain's Connecticut Yankee for the first time next week and I wondered what everyone thought about the novel's attitude towards modern science and invention. I'm familar with the arguments concerning Twain's frustration with the Paige typesetting machine, yet those horrid scenes which accurately depict mankind's ability to wage "modern" warfare go far beyond such frustrations. Surely, such horrors also go beyond Twain's anger at the English and their romantic notions of feudalism. Any opinions on this matter? Michael O'Conner