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...Frescoes from the Past," in Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain. For reasons nobody knows, Twain decided not to include this as a chapter in Huckleberry Finn. The tale is perhaps too completely black; it evokes throughout a strange mixture of gutlaughter and gut-fear. One thing's for sure: having read it, you won't think the same of Huckleberry Finn, or its avuncular author, again. Not for abjurers of dead baby jokes...
...time the next generation of students reaches college age, revered works of literature such as Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick may no longer be foremost in the American literary canon, according to four Harvard professors who spoke yesterday at the symposium, "Reexamining Masterpieces: Changes in the American Literary Canon...
...know about me without your having read a book by the name of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but that ain't no matter. A lot of school- taught folks been talkin' about that story since Mark Twain made it up, about me and Jim floatin' on our raft down that monstrous big river, and Jim escapin' from slavery and me hiding him out. They say I did a big heroic thing in helpin' Jim get free, but that weren't it. Truth is, Jim helped me git free, 'cause if he hadn't made me realize that...
...Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are America's foremost symbols of boyhood optimism, of romantic dreaming at the age when all life's options lie open. Bernard Sabath's The Boys in Autumn imagines those Mark Twain characters as disillusioned middle-aged men. The youths who fantasized becoming outlaws have done just that: Tom has a guilty secret that sent him wandering; Huck has a guilty secret that made him a recluse. On an afternoon in the Roaring Twenties they meet again and, after sputtering mistrust, struggle to renew a feeling of blood brotherhood in boundless adventure...
Despite the advanced level of some of the participants, Finn stressed that all levels of experience in Boston accent are welcome. In closing he added, "It'll be a wicked good time...