NP: Twain, Part One

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Mark Wright AIA wrote:
> 
> Howdy
> 
> Weren't you paying attention? He got rich and famous long before he
> wrote Huck Finn, which didn't sell as well as his previous books.
> 
> What is it about "an art like that" that makes you sad, exactly?
> 
> Mark

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good
example. 
	--Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

The art of Twain can arouse feelings of sadness. As a lad I cried a
little when I read some of his stories, but most of the time I laughed.
And  being young I imagined that Twain was talking to me about what was
going on in my own life. Maybe he still does. 


http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/docs/Omi-Winant.html

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson is one of Mark Twain's most thorough
examinations of the institution of slavery and the superficiality of
racial prejudice. It was
written during an era when Jim Crow segregation was
spreading throughout the South and was published two
years before the Supreme Court upheld the
constitutionality of segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson on
May 18, 1896.