Mark Twain Yarn-Bombed at Monrovia Library

The statue of Mark Twain is resigned to wearing his crocheted sweater in 90+ degree heat.
– Photo by Courtney Blackburn

“We must put up with our clothes as they are — they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us — to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.”
– Following the Equator

“Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.”
– Mark Twain’s Notebook

This tree was also a casualty of last week’s yarnbombing.
– Photo by Courtney Blackburn

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