A mysterious stranger

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In Priboj, there is a bridge over the river that leads to the city center. If it is bypassed, you are also in the center, you will only reach it a few minutes later.As a child, I always crossed the bridge and then came back the same way, in the belief that if I changed the path, maybe something different would happen.At the time, I was reading Mark Twain's book ,,The Mysterious Stranger."

Mark Twain, real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in the small town of Florida, Missouri, as the sixth child of Judges John Marshall Clemens and Jane Lampton Clemens. He dropped out of school at the age of twelve due to his father's death, and began working as a printing scientist. At the age of eighteen (1853) he left Hannibal and after several migrations and a multitude of jobs decided to become a shipowner on Mississippi. His experiences from the river and from river life have forever been recorded in his novels, and even in his name: “Mark Twain” was the exclamation of a man checking the depth of a river, meaning a depth of just over three and a half meters, or other in words, deep enough water to navigate.

In 1890, after the collapse of his publishing house, Twain fell into financial trouble. To recover from bankruptcy, he begins a world tour of lectures during which his pet, daughter Susy, dies of meningitis. After the tour he published the satirical historical novels "The Yankees of Connecticut at King Arthur's Court" (1889) and "Stupid Wilson" (1894).

Another terrible event clouded the fame and success of the great writer, when in 1904 his wife and second (out of three) daughter died in Florence. After that, heavy despair and pessimism are irrevocably drawn into Twain's works.

Twain was also remembered as a good friend of Nikola Tesla. The famous scientist was among those who were conquered by Twain's works as a child. As a high school student, he read them in the hospital. Many years before they met, Twain was fascinated by Tesla's ideas. Their acquaintance was marked as one of the most intriguing friendships of recent times.

Twain's book "The Mysterious Stranger" was published for the first time six years after the writer's death, and according to some sources, it was created as a result of a complex relationship between two geniuses.

When Nikola Tesla arrived in America in 1884, Twain was already a respected author. The two geniuses met in 1889 in a New York club for gentlemen who both visited.

According to some sources today, their friendship began after Tesla used his oscillator to help Twain on a rather intimate issue.

Namely, the writer had problems with digestion for a long time, and Nikola Tesla thought that he could help him.We don't know if this Tesla's somewhat unconventional method of treatment helped Twain, but after this, their friendship flourished.

Tesla described Twain as the first person who inspired him upon his arrival in America and really understood him. The Serbian scientist was invited to the wedding of Twain's daughter Clara in the fall of 1909, and the writer was a welcome guest in Nikola Tesla's laboratory.

Mark Twain died on April 21, 1910, while Nikola Tesla outlived him by more than three decades. Six years after the death of the famous writer, his last novel "Mysterious Stranger" was published. In it, Twain described an angel descending from heaven to a small Austrian village to teach a group of boys the secrets of the world.

In this character and the discoveries he talks about, many still recognize Nikola Tesla and his village. Smiljan.

It is Mark Twain's last book. Contrary to previous books, this one is philosophical, dark, and full of metaphor. One of the stories is The Mysterious Stranger. It is about three boys who meet a magician in the forest, with whom they make friends and later discover that Satan is personal. He explained to them that he was not evil, but only God's messenger for death. The boys then ask him to change the life of their best friend, because he is poor. Satan snaps his fingers and the wish is fulfilled.

When the boys want to know the fate of their friend, he answers them as follows:

"Thanks to you, your friend will die in 2 weeks. He slept by the open window every night. When I snapped my fingers, he got up, closed the window and his destiny changed. If I hadn't changed his destiny, he would have lived until he was eighty."

The story explains the order of life. Everything has its reason, sometimes someone's death is the best possible option, considering what kind of life someone would live. Do we influence our destiny, our path? Can any steps we take really change the sequence? Does destiny exist?

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Fantastic one. Keep going

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All I want to say here is Nikola Tesla and enough

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all of it is new to me and thanks to this I learned something new about Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla

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thank you friend

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Brilliant! I didn't know any of this.

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They were both geniuses in their field of interest, so it is no wonder that they were good friends ... And as for the book, it would be worth reading.

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Alas, I don't remember reading that book.

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Now I'm curious how the story ended. I didn't know Twain had a breakthrough in this novel. I only know about The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. These two had film adaptations making them both be known widely.

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fantastic article... just one thing my brain needed to get our there: when you say he hit bankruptcy and did his tours, The way it reads to me is that his pet, who also happened to be his daughter, died. XS

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Fantastic! PTPA. Guys please also check my articles. Thank you.

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amazing

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Great article.

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Great information about this article my Dear friend

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good post

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One of nice article.

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Wouldn't really know so much but I'm quite sure there's such a thing as destiny.

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Wouldn't really know so much but I'm quite sure there's such a thing as destiny.

I am of that opinion too.

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every cast beautifully written

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Thank you friend!

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Very good topic, I didn't know about this book, honestly. I learned something new by reading this article.

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One very good article

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Thanks for sharing this article!

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I knew about the friendship between Twain and Tesla.

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Their friendship was one of the most intriguing in history. One was a great scientist. Another great writer. In addition to genius, they were connected by something else - they were both dreamers.

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hm , i never see this book before, you interested me to find and read

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I knew nothing about this.

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I don't know about this book by Mark Twain. I also learned things about him that I did not know until now reading this article.

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I don't know about this book by Mark Twain. I also learned things about him that I did not know until now reading this article.

Thank you friend!

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Twain and Nicola Tesla were so connected. When Tesla was ill, he red book of Twain and recover himself with energy from it.. Isn't that myth or true, it doesn't mater...

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Thank you friend!

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You are welcome!

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