Pynchons Problem

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Leslie Fiedler's the one to read on Huckleberry Finn.



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From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wed, Mar 14, 2012 10:47 pm
Subject: Re: Pynchons Problem


Albert Rolls wrote:
> Of course, the reader should see that Huck is right when he does wrongs, but 
Huck
> doesn't see that.

Huck is a messed-up kid...it isn't that much fun being an outsider...
wasn't there a Mickey Rooney Huck Finn movie?  I remember the dad
yelling in that...

anyway, I was doing a little due diligence and found that wikipedia
sez Huck undergoes a moral awakening.  so he would have to be
portrayed as being asleep to begin with.

his moral sleep regarding slavery was very common in those days,
extending as far as the self-styled "Supreme" court of the United
States...and their actions, unlike Huck's, didn't follow their
humanitarian tendencies but their mistaken legalistic dream, so Huck's
awakening was a contrary and revolutionary act even limited as it
was...

and Huck the character - I learned - flies off with Tom and Jim in a
balloon in a later novel.  cool!  didn't actually move to the Western
Territory after all...
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/91/91-h/91-h.htm

but the part I skimmed has them philosophizing about time zones and
colors on maps and so forth; true, no love interest, but Tom, at
least, (and certainly Jim) has demonstrated his capacity for them in
the past, and Huck's a follower...

 
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