Original artwork, not a still
Misattributed to Mark Twain
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The joke is that the child’s perspective has changed. Growing older makes the father seem wiser, though the speaker describes it as the father finally learning.
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