Mark Twain

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Tongue-Tied

I think I may have mentioned in a previous post that Huck Finn was my favorite book for a while. Also Twain's essay on what specifically is wrong with The Deerslayer series by the much-loved James Fenimore Cooper put to words the incredible pain I experienced while trying to process The Last of the Mohicans for an American literature class.

Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in "Deerslayer," and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record. (Mark Twain's Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses)
The more I read, the more I love Twain. So of course since I began work on Joan of Arc for the Kindle, I feel as though I'm carrying around this secret: the best book ever; and I can't wait to get to some long-lost elementary school sense of hiding--as you would in a closet with a flashlight--to read this book in perfect solitude. Just me and Mark Twain and the best book ever.

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