Find HF a little unsettling? Does Twain's language cause your postmodern, politically correct feathers to ruffle? Do you pine for the never-were glory days of the morally superior socialist economies that murdered millions and oppresssed and brutalized millions more and ruined cultures and invented histories and reinforced elitism? Is the earth flat?
Do you think that liberal democracies are capable of recognizing and correcting artificial barriers, such as a segregation? Was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 a piece of legal legerdermain that just reinforced the oppression of inherent in liberal democracy? Is Mark Twain reinforcing wrongs or tempting people to admit weakness? What's more important, telling the story correctly or correctly telling the story?
Here's a cool passage from HF in which Huck speaks:
Well, three or four months run along, and it was well into the winter, now. I had been to school most of the time and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multipication tables up to six times seven equals thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway.
Save the humanities. Read Twain and enjoy Twain. I am.
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