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Nov.03.2012
When we drove home from Michigan, we decided to stay one night in Hannibal, MO. We wanted to experience Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens) homeland & hoped to inherit a bit of his muse while we were there. We found his boyhood home after educating ourselves...
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May.31.2011
“Do they have lollipops here?” my son asks when we arrive at the ER. It’s our second night in Las Vegas, and he has taken a tumble from the stairs. Not what we had in mind for vacation at his grandparents’ – but in the Saint Rose emergency room you get to see another side of life in Sin City.
Not...
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Jan.06.2011
Mark Twain's classic "Huckleberry Finn," one of the most frequently banned books in America and one that is increasingly erased from reading lists and curricula across the country, is about to re-emerge in a racially cleansed format that makes it palatable for our oversensitive times,...
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Aug.10.2010
Like Salinger, Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) has retained his hold on the U.S. imagination. That hisThe Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn has been banned over the last century-plus - for varying reasons - would no doubt please the author.
The U.S. is a country that, in wholesale fashion, superficially...
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Apr.16.2010
This book"Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain, takes me back to my childhood. So refreshing. We can't bring back our childhood. But the thaught of it. The friends, the feelings, the environment, the jelousy, the innoscence, the belief, and so on.
The most interesting part of the story is: Tom getting...
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Jul.20.2009
Chores. The word strikes fear into the hearts of eleven-year-olds everywhere. Few of us are as clever as Tom Sawyer, who persuaded the other kids in the neighborhood to paint his fence for him by cleverly brandishing an automatic weapon. But the rest of us must do our own laundry, vacuum the rug,...
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Feb.07.2008
BOOKS IN MY LIFE [haibun]
I recently vowed to resume reading for pleasure, for too long edged out by my work-related reading (like, writing).
So when i finished three books, picked up at random, I remarked to my friend Phil Kohlenberg at the Dolphin Club and remarked I just realized I'd...
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