Abstract
In his disturbingly hilarious “The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut” (1876) Mark Twain explains how he inadvertently incarnated and then happily destroyed his conscience, thereby ending years of remorse for wronging strangers, friends, and family. He confesses to hav‐ ing mistreated supplicants at his door, betrayed comrades, and abused his children and brother. But now with conscience dead, he can forget all that and guiltlessly rid himself of any who trouble him: “Since that day my life is all bliss. Bliss, unalloyed bliss. Nothing in all the world could persuade me to have a conscience again. I settled all my old outstanding scores, and began the world anew. I killed thirty‐eight persons during the first two weeks—all of them on account of ancient grudges.”1 Twain likewise dispatches the numerous tramps who call and, with the word “dead” punctuating his rant, even threatens the life of his beloved aunt:
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