Innocents Abroad. "Is he dead?"

I hope that Mark Twain, before dying, made his peace with God--because I really would like to meet them both, face to face; and in the case that the two have made separate living arrangements, I shall have to forfeit hopes of meeting The Riverboat Genius. And that would be a darn shame.

a neighborhood full of identical cul-de-sacs...

i feel really used up.