From Speech on the Weather If we hadn't our bewitching autumn foliage, we should still have to credit the weather with one feature which compensates for all its bullying
vagaries-the ice-storm: when a leafless tree is clothed with ice from the bottom to the top-ice that is as bright and clear as crystal; when every
bough and twig is strung with ice-beads, frozen dewdrops, and the whole tree sparkles cold and white, like the Shah of Persia's diamond plume.
Then the wind waves the branches and the sun comes out and turns all those myriads of beads and drops to prisms that glow and burn and flash
with all manner of colored fires, which change and change again with inconceivable rapidity from blue to red, from red to green, and green to gold
--the tree becomes a spraying fountain a very explosion of dazzling jewels; and it stands there the acme, the climax, the supremest possibility in
art or nature of bewildering, intoxicating, intolerable magnificence. One cannot make the words too strong.
(From "Speech on the Weather" by Mark Twain)
Consider Twain's use of inconceivable, bewildering, and intoxicating.
What does the use of these words convey about the author's attitude toward the weather?
O 1. The author views the weather as a force that demands respect.
2. The author is in awe of the way weather can transform the landscape.
3. The author finds the science of weather a very interesting topic to study.
4. The author admits to being puzzled by how frequently the weather changes.