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To: decimon

If he sounds sympathetic enough to socialism maybe they’ll let school kids read Huck Finn again.


8 posted on 10/19/2010 10:41:28 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: SeeSharp
If he sounds sympathetic enough to socialism maybe they’ll let school kids read Huck Finn again.

It's hard to tell if he had such sympathy in his later years. His friends ranged from socialists to who were considered robber barons.

17 posted on 10/19/2010 11:58:52 AM PDT by decimon
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To: SeeSharp

Unrepentant but closet commie Ernest Hemingway said a couple of things about it — “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” Also, “there was nothing much before. No one has written anything better since.”


35 posted on 10/19/2010 2:15:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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