Mark Twain and Halley’s Comet
Mark Twain was born in 1835 – the year Halley’s Comet was visible in the sky. In 1909, he said he would come and go with the comet. He actually died on April 21, 1910, just one day after the comet reappeared.
This almost supernatural prediction left his followers speechless. Twain was known for his sharp wit and symbolic humor – but the fact that his life spanned exactly this arc gave his death an almost mystical quality. A literary cosmos closed in on itself.
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