tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984499113019674536.post4107893792651947135..comments2024-03-27T02:14:18.237-07:00Comments on Beers with Demo: AirbrushingDeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02448369692335981936noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984499113019674536.post-90878680942429678602011-01-06T20:50:54.879-08:002011-01-06T20:50:54.879-08:00Can't add anything to that. Thanks, 'Dawg...Can't add anything to that. Thanks, 'Dawg.Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02448369692335981936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984499113019674536.post-38420729668109827022011-01-06T16:52:55.851-08:002011-01-06T16:52:55.851-08:00Mrs. Dawg gave me the biography for Christmas. Ve...Mrs. Dawg gave me the biography for Christmas. Very tough read.<br /><br /> This battle has been raging longer than the latest editor's new publication.<br /><br />Part of reading Mark Twain is the appreciation for the context and historical value. The author’s words are not the character’s words. By editing the character’s words, the historical content of the narrative is diminished.<br /><br />I had to explain to my children when Tom told Aunt Sally his head was wet from pumping water whereby a daily chore was pumping water at the well and carrying it to the house. The concept of no running water within the home was illustrated in his narrative by Tom lying to his aunt to get out of getting caught for swimming instead of going to school. “It was so hot, some of us pumped water on our heads, see my collar is still wet” Likewise, the use of the term nigger in context is important to understand the characters, mood of the nation and the period of time, whether used in a pejorative sense or not. <br /><br />Twain clearly struggled with slavery and his use of the word can be revisited as negative, but Huck and Tom clearly cared for and respected Jim, the hero of the story. <br /><br />All of his writings indicate Mark Twain supported the dignity of all human beings, and the damage by the use of the term in context is not as damaging as the censorship of the literary composition.Road Dawghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14376391419287733609noreply@blogger.com