Or — to be more specific — what would he think of a U.S. publisher’s recently announced decision to purge a new Huck Finn edition of the n-word?
We actually have, at least indirectly, a very good idea of what he would think. Twain, a word-artist if ever there was one, wrote a sentence that every would-be censor should be forced to mutter a hundred times while seeking forgiveness from the goddess of literature: “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug” Read More »
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