the preterite's preterite is where I am

jporter jp4321 at soho.ios.com
Mon Jul 10 00:31:23 CDT 1995


The 'passed over' Jim to the 'passed over' Huck, from "Jim and the Dead
Man" a rejected chapter, by Mark Twain (The New Yorker, 6/26/95):

"Now dey say a ghos' don't cas' no shadder. Why is dat, you reckon?"

Just sitting here between a shadow and a doubt, watching the river flow....






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