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EVE’S DIARY

EVE’S DIARY

by MARK TWAIN

Translated from the Original Everything looks better today than
it did yesterday. In the rush of
SATURDAY.--I am almost a whole finishing up yesterday, the mountains
day old, now. I arrived yesterday. were left in a ragged condition, and
That is as it seems to me. And it must some of the plains were so cluttered
be so, for if there was a day-before- with rubbish and remnants that the
yesterday I was not there when it aspects were quite distressing. Noble
happened, or I should remember it. It and beautiful works of art should not
could be, of course, that it did happen, be subjected to haste; and this majestic
and that I was not noticing. Very well; new world is indeed a most noble and
I will be very watchful now, and if beautiful work. And certainly
any day-before-yesterdays happen I marvelously near to being perfect,
will make a note of it. It will be best to notwithstanding the shortness of the
start right and not let the record get time. There are too many stars in some
confused, for some instinct tells me places and not enough in others, but
that these details are going to be that can be remedied presently, no
important to the historian some day. doubt. The moon got loose last night,
For I feel like an experiment, I feel and slid down and fell out of the
exactly like an experiment; it would be scheme--a very great loss; it breaks my
impossible for a person to feel more heart to think of it. There isn’t
like an experiment than I do, and so I another thing among the ornaments
am coming to feel convinced that that and decorations that is comparable to
is what I AM--an experiment; just an it for beauty and finish. It should
experiment, and nothing more. have been fastened better. If we can
Then if I am an experiment, am I only get it back again--
the whole of it? No, I think not; I But of course there is no telling
think the rest of it is part of it. I am where it went to. And besides,
the main part of it, but I think the whoever gets it will hide it; I know it
rest of it has its share in the matter. because I would do it myself. I believe
Is my position assured, or do I have to I can be honest in all other matters,
watch it and take care of it? The but I already begin to realize that the
latter, perhaps. Some instinct tells me core and center of my nature is love of
that eternal vigilance is the price of the beautiful, a passion for the
supremacy. [That is a good phrase, I beautiful, and that it would not be
think, for one so young.] safe to trust me with a moon that
belonged to another person and that

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