The words in my heart

THE WORDS IN MY HEART
 by Victor Evdokimov

“TOM!”
No answer.
 “TOM!”
No answer.
 “What’s gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!”
No answer.
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and lookedover them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them”.

I always carry these everybody’s well-known words in my heart.

Every time, when I start to wander through the dark on the road of life, I open and read my two favourite books. These are the books that I remember from my own childhood, and since then, I never part with. They stay with me through life.

These are the wonderful stories about the adventures of little boys from a small town on the Mississippi River. My reading refreshes my spirits, and comforts my soul, and the darkness and fog being dispersed on the road of life and I can see my way again

Can you imagine my surprise when I learned that the famous inventor Nikola Tesla, sick with a very serious illness, having read "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain, was cured and never parted with this book in his life? So I never part with my favorite books "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn "and, like Nikola Tesla, I thank the wonderful author of these books of Mark Twain.

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29 January 2018