Josh Mossotti

‘The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut’ is certainly a mouthful, but also one of my personal favorite stories of Mark Twain, and any other author for that matter. The story describes his  characters’ contemptuous relationship with his own conscience. His conscience, played eloquently by a dwarf of a man and who size is directly related to the conviction of the character, immediately turns a normal quiet day filled with tobacco smoke and self gratifiying deeds into an all out introspective battle of the wills. Equipped with Twain’s natural humor and the hilarity of his absolute disdain for the job of the conscience, he’s set out to destroy that which most have taken as a virtue, but as depicted in this story I might deal the same fate for my own.

Though the track does not play out in the fashion and arc as the tale was written, I often ’steal’ from inspirations that push me further into my own works. Many aspects of this track would be fit for the ears of a man without a conscience.

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