The heavens above have more wonders than even the great seer can imagine.

Shakespeare's Cosmogony of the Spheres aided his ability to capture the depths of the Heavens above and the soulmates thereof, below.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens talked often about going out with Halley's Comet and that apparition that had heralded his arrival just as the three heavenly bodies that came together and stayed two weeks in the skies above Bethlehem to stand in witness and as a guide to the Three Magi from places far away and supposedly not known. Was it mere synchronicity or co-incidence that caused Clemens to die as the movie shows the return of Halley's Comet? Was it a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Ben Jonson wrote about his friend Willy as a "Beacon for all ages". He meant to say that Shakespeare would gain favor amongst people of the world for the great awesome insights that came from the bard's ample prose. He was not referring to the age of a soul from youth to maturity as it lost its wisdom. Sam captured the innocence of the wonder child in many books about 'Old Muddy'. He was read by older children who saw more in his words than mere humor or mirth despite the material things which caused their girth. I have often quoted the words of Hugo's appreciation of Shakespeare that say we are drawn back again and again to the edge of the precipice, taking one step down each time and growing closer to the "waves of the marvelous".

Writers aspire to elucidate the human spirit and hopefully they get to write what they think as well as feel. Sam knew the world was not ready even though there were no heresy trials or stakes that he might face beyond the debtor's prison or bankruptcy he faced for having given all the profits of his book memorializing Ulysses Grant to his widow. He wrote Letters From the Earth to be published 50 years after the comet came to take him away. I suggest the torch that lit the beacon which Jonson spoke about was passed to Samuel Clemens.

I remember walking into the offices of the publisher of the Sacramento Bee and knowing something more than anyone can know from mere intellect or reason. Clemens had worked there long before I visited his home in Hartford shortly before I arrived in Sacramento. I remember the re-incarnation of the Mayor of Old Sacramento who had been encouraged by Mark Twain as Sam was known. Our talks were mostly about the Mayan people that this man had brought to light in a century before he and I met in a bar called Fanny Anne's Saloon. That was before I learned and lived amongst those wonderful people who say 'Do not put yourself before your Self'. Mark Twain would not allow his advisors to convince him to let his creditors only receive fifty cents on the dollar for what he owed them after his support of the inventing of a typesetter ruined him financially. He understood real integrity in ways few people ever will.