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HAWKING_FINN

                                            January  8, 2006

This is becoming something of a standard
rap with me, so let's go over it quickly:

   "Huckleberry Finn" is severely overrated.


Isn't it wonderful how Twain captured the
ills afflicting society of the time with
two abused individuals who are never            And what is it about
happy unless they're drifting alone down        interracial homosexuality
stream?                                         that makes it a
                                                requirement for Great
   Or could it be that Twain                    American novels?
   himself was drifting,                        Both Huck Finn and Moby
   cranking out newspaper                       Dick push that button.
   serial installments on the    
   fly, never happy except when                     Racial differences
   his characters are out on                        as a stand-in for
   the river, living out                            the Other that
   picaresque, idyllic scenes                       appeals to the
   that he can write in his                         hetero?
   sleep while praying for the                         
   next plot development to                         The conviction    
   emerge?                                          that sex is evil 
                                                    and nasty that      
      And then finally, boxed                       drives you toward 
      into a corner by word                         intercourse with     
      count and that inevitable                     the Low?            
      southern drift toward                         
      disaster, Twain pulls a                               
      happy ending out of a hat,                    Some sort of guilt
      and papers over the Deus                      reaction, a desire
      ex Machina with some                          to treat the wronged
      crowd-pleasing Tom Sawyer                     and oppressed with
      nonsense.                                     love?


         RETCON               Just a hawkin'
                              and a spittin'


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