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My daughter is reading Lord of the Flies for her ap English this week.
I told her just log into 24 hour campfire.
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I love the classics. Read Huck Finn just out of high school and again a few years back - one of very few books I have read twice. It will make you long to live in times where America was a bigger, unbridled, country. A place where one could lose himself in its vastness and explore an often violent and dangerous world relying only on yourself. It manages to display the human duality of how people living back then had no identity issue and a certain type of self interest primacy yet conveys a strong, almost sweet. sense of humanity throughout.
When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are something to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honors are something to be ashamed of
. Confucius
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Thank you Keith, no coffee yet this morning.  Even in his day Twain, yes his name was Mark Clemens, Twain is shorter, took a lot of flack for the lack of what is now political correctness. Full name was Samuel Langhorne Clemensi No (i) at the end of Clemens either. ![[Linked Image]](https://i.postimg.cc/d1xSz945/image.jpg) just caught, and fixed the typo
if a man speaks, and there isn't a woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I have Huck Finn on audiobook. One time when taking the family on a cross-country road trip I thought it would be fun to let the kids listen to it. After about 2 minutes I was trying to find the off button. I can't reconcile the language with the kids' schooling. It's a shame because I love Mark Twain but in today's culture I'm afraid to have my kids hear it! Maybe when they are older but not yet for my grade schoolers. I recall reading Tom Sawyer in grade school or middle school. Yeah, taught my grandkids all the classics, Ol’ Zip Coon (always a SW gathering fav), massa in de cold cold ground, Coal Black Rose, etc. DIL says She’ll send me with em to principal’s office. I told her that is probably not a really good idea!
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Don't just read Clemens's fiction. You're missing out if you don't read Life on the Mississippi and Roughing It.
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