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

[Michael Bailey]

attempts at self-improvement...

> as you say, Huck is willing to venture out into that night, so the
> neighborhood probably isn't normally dangerous,

isn't "usually" dangerous...isn't more than normally dangerous...

>and there are a number
> of ways an actor could voice Jim's lines.
>

that's a different thought, probably should have been a different sentence

>
> 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...
>

but that's counterpointed when he after only a little while begins to
like school and life at the widow's place (especially in contrast with
the life his father offers)