Quotes in Context:
Context: Tom and Huck play a trick on Jim. JIm explains the trick by ways of vodoo magic.
Context: The boy's gang is debating what it is to ransom someone, without a complete knowledge of the word:
"Because it ain't in the books so -- that's why. Now, Ben Rogers, do you want to do things regular, or don't you? -- that's the idea. Don't you reckon that the people that made the books knows what's the correct thing to do? Do you reckon YOU can learn 'em anything? Not by a good deal. No, sir, we'll just go on and ransom them in the regular way."
Poetic Response:
Story book notions, play with your itch.
Highway boys nest,
and break,
fences.
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Thoughts on Notes from a Native Son and Mark Twain's Novel
At once, a need, for saving de
"Nigger". White absolves;
black+red
is blank.
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At once, a need, for saving de
"Nigger". White absolves;
black+red
is blank.
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