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...Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...
...nearing nightfall, and the cemetery caretaker's wife was worried: her husband had not come home from work. She called the police, who headed out to Finn's Point National Cemetery, on a spit of New Jersey 30 miles south of Philadelphia. They arrived to find a grim tableau. The caretaker, William Reese, was there--with a bullet through his head. His red Chevrolet truck was missing. In its place, eerily, was a dark-green Lexus...
...call from their Chicago colleagues warning that the Lexus' phone had been activated in their area. The Philadelphia police went on alert, although, as a spokesman pointed out, "the guy [in the car] does not necessarily have to be the bad guy." That night, with the bulletin from Finn's Point, it became obvious the guy in the car was indeed the bad guy. He was now in the Chevy pickup, headed--where...
...liners about ailments and recuperation, could establish a mood for compromise. On the night before the meeting, Clinton, recovering from knee surgery, had trouble sleeping--he heard a loud banging above the ceiling of his room. The next day he joked with Yeltsin that the Russians had hired a Finn to jump up and down on the roof...
...myth-making and myth-mapping lie both on the surface and beneath the waves of the novel. Critics mention patterns alluding to the Odyssey, Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick, but the most evident and important allusions are to the Odyssey itself and to James Joyce's towering modern interpretation of that epic, Ulysses. It's probably not unfair to say that Hall seems to be trying to create a contemporary, child's-scale version of Ulysses. The intriguing thing about Saskia is that her adventures, while densely packed with meaning, are also straightforwardly narrated; precocious kids--like the hero herself...