TSI, Notes 1: Tom and Sam (Mark) and Huck and Baby Tyrone

[Abdiel OAbdiel]

--- Michael Perez 
> 
>   The following is from Joe Boulton's article
> "'Children and Slaves in
> the West':  Imagining Fraternity among Outlaws in
> 'The Secret
> Integration'"
>       Oklahoma City University Law Review 
>       Volume 24, Number 3 (1999) 
>      
> "The integration that Jim experiences with his
> association with children is of limited use to him.

I like the article. However, I don't agree with
Boulton's reading of HF or TSI.

One of the flaws in TSI is the inconsistancy of the
intelligence of the characters, particularly the kids.
Pynchon, while he says that that he can't much
remember these stories and so on...is quite apt at
getting at the critical problems of the tales. To read
Jim as having inferior intelligence is to misread HF.
HF is a very ironic text. Is Tom smarter than Huck. Is
Huck smarter than Jim? No. How about Grover? Is he
smarter than Tim? 



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