What a nice twist and you brought in on one of my favorite authors. I published a couple of articles on Twain in Nevada, if you're interested. Jeff, https://fromarockyhillside.com
Well, C. Lee McKenzie, do I believe in ghosts--specifically your ghosts? I do. I have spoken to Samuel many times over the years--as well as many others. It's not that Sam and Thomas and so many others materialize as hallucinogenic apparitions, they come to me in dreams, in daytime reveries, and I converse with them--as do you--and they continually demand to be heard and understood. Did Sam really want to modernize his prose? What demon drove him to seek out one book in one library--and an anthology to boot? In my conversations with Sam he has only expressed one regret: his failure to make himself understood. Time and again I have asked him, what was his intention in depicting Jim as intelligent, perceptive, ill-educated but intent on escaping to freedom in a world that would never accept him as a human being? Did he expect to change minds? Sam has always responded with an enigmatic smile and a shrug. So I ask you, did Sam really want to edit his prose or was he tweaking your nose?
Keep that ghost away from my bookshelves! I like those books as they are. Shows what a sorry state into which modern literature has degenerated! And writers should NEVER write down to their audience but instead elevate them!
I like the surprise twist I wasn't expecting.
What a nice twist and you brought in on one of my favorite authors. I published a couple of articles on Twain in Nevada, if you're interested. Jeff, https://fromarockyhillside.com
Well, C. Lee McKenzie, do I believe in ghosts--specifically your ghosts? I do. I have spoken to Samuel many times over the years--as well as many others. It's not that Sam and Thomas and so many others materialize as hallucinogenic apparitions, they come to me in dreams, in daytime reveries, and I converse with them--as do you--and they continually demand to be heard and understood. Did Sam really want to modernize his prose? What demon drove him to seek out one book in one library--and an anthology to boot? In my conversations with Sam he has only expressed one regret: his failure to make himself understood. Time and again I have asked him, what was his intention in depicting Jim as intelligent, perceptive, ill-educated but intent on escaping to freedom in a world that would never accept him as a human being? Did he expect to change minds? Sam has always responded with an enigmatic smile and a shrug. So I ask you, did Sam really want to edit his prose or was he tweaking your nose?
Keep that ghost away from my bookshelves! I like those books as they are. Shows what a sorry state into which modern literature has degenerated! And writers should NEVER write down to their audience but instead elevate them!