(np, Twain) surrounded by assassins!

[alice wellintown]

Endure that toil of growing up;
The ignominy of boyhood; the distress
Of boyhood changing into man;
The unfinished man and his pain
Brought face to face with his own clumsiness;
The finished man among his enemies? —

WB Yeats

Tom, the charismatic leader, Huck, the youth, and a  castaway who sees
God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, weaving the grand tapestry.
But there is something dull about Huck; he doen't want to be alone, an
outcast, a castaway, but when he must face this, he sees not the
brotherhood that might save him yet.

The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the
infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried
down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped
primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the
miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the
joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the
multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the
firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God's foot upon
the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates
called him mad. So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering
from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought,
which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then
uncompromised, indifferent as his God.