(np) HF, the payoff of not being completely d*ckish...

[Michael Bailey]

Albert Rolls wrote:
>describe the night as he does might have gone unnoticed by Jim. Further, the spookiness does not prevent Huck from >venturing into the darkness so why does it necessarily prevent Jim, if he perceives it, from sleeping. In any case, if I am not >persuaded, it's not that big of a deal. We'll disagree, not even actively: at some point, sooner rather than later, this >discussion will be dropped.

sounds good to me.

there are 3 soundings that I'm constantly taking while reading ---
in this case,
what huck says - which is objectively verifiable
what I think that twain is getting at -  less so, but a fitting topic
for discussion
and how reasonable each proposition seems to me and where all this
fits in my worldview - mostly of concern to myself

as you say, Huck is willing to venture out into that night, so the
neighborhood probably isn't normally dangerous, and there are a number
of ways an actor could voice Jim's lines.


My inclination is to believe that Huck rejects the culture of the
white society of St Petersburg in a conscious, Marxist or Deleuze and
Guattari schizo-analysis alienated way...

and then I want to propose that Jim embodies a covert slave culture
which is aware of its broken estate, distinct, and in some ways, a
real contender for the turf...in a civil-rights-movement type of way


but this is placing a later template on both of them, and they speak
really well for themselves if  I let them...