Word: huck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans live on a vast patch of the earth, a sweep of scattered geography in which states tumble together around barely visible boundaries, and we have no idea who the hell we are. Of course, various people have tried to find out; we have drifted down the river with Huck Finn, poured across the highways with the Joads, maybe followed Kerouac through his woozy continental high-jinks. We somehow believe that there exists a sense, a spirit, something, that defines this tumbled vastness as distinctly American...
...national character. We are loosely held, we fly off, reattach, reemerge, continue. This is what we are--which sounds like a strange kind of unity, but this behavior, this trait, whatever you want to call it, is what has always bound us together as Americans; has been ever since Huck Finn lit out for a new territory...
...apolitical younger generation -- "Never trust anyone under 30," he declared -- he never stopped protesting. It was Timothy Leary, the advance scout of the LSD generation, who eulogized Hoffman most deftly last week. "An American legend," Leary called him. "Right up there in the hall of fame with rebel Huck Finn, rowdy Babe Ruth and crazy Lenny Bruce...
...Francisco, Adam lives with Huck, who somehow maganes to be raising a one-year old child, Christopher. Adam wonders who the child's mother is. But he doesn't ask. Then, this woman Lucille, who refuses to wear anything but men's tuxedos begins to show up in Adam's room at bizarre hours of the night, just to make love to him and then leave as mysteriously as she enters. Adam sees her during the day, but he is unwilling to ask her where their relationship stands. He does not even presume to think that they are lovers...
...Adam is disturbed by the situation, he doesn't react. Nor does he question or even talk to Huck about the various homosexual men with whom he spends the night in their apartment. These are the 1980s, the book seems to say, the era of acceptance...