"When my physical body dies my dream body will doubtless continue its excursion and activities without change, forever." Twain believes the Dream-self is free of time and space.

After his wife had died, Clemens told a friend of a dream he had in which Olivia, his wife, leaned against him and he repeated to her, "I was perfectly sure it was a dream, I never would have believed it wasn't." Dreams became a focus for much of his later writings.

Olivia Clemens

In a note, Twain wrote, "a God who has no morals, yet blandly sets himself up as Head Sunday-school Superintendent of the Universe; Who has no idea of mercy, justice, or honesty..." The loss of his daughter, his wife, a financial loss, and the diagnosis of his youngest daughter with epilepsy had plagued twain in his later years. It would be hard for anyone not to be upset at these hardships. Twain's later writings certainly showed the wear and tear of his sorrowful life.

Clemens was still alive when Susy, his eldest daughter, passed on.

On a more upbeat note ,thirty years earlier, before all these pains, Twain wrote, "I felt like the Last Man, neglected of the judgement, and left pinnacled in mid-heaven, a forgotten relic of a vanished world." He thought this, as he stood high above a horizon of clouds on a cliff in Maui.