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Quotation from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

“This is what the Matterhorn is--a monument”

Mark Twain (spoken by Mark Twain (narrator))

A Tramp Abroad, Chapter XXXVI (Project Gutenberg #119)

Portrait of Mark Twain

Twain imagines the Matterhorn as the gravestone of young Lord Douglas, lost from the summit in the 1865 disaster and never found.

Citation: "This is what the Matterhorn is--a monument" — Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, Chapter XXXVI (Project Gutenberg #119). (id a-tramp-abroad-q6)

Portrait: A Tramp Abroad (1880), illustration by True Williams, True Williams, Public domain.

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