“A home without a cat—and a well fed, well petted and properly revered cat—may be a perfect home perhaps, but how can it prove title?” ~Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson

It is ironic that this book was first banned by institutions that thought Twain was promoting southern racist tenets, and then later banned by those who realized he was lambasting those tenets in exaggerated parody. Such is the nature of exquisite satire. Twain was a beacon of sanity in an era of ignorance and inhumanity. If I believed in the existence of God I would thank him for gifting us this witty and insightful genius.