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To: SunkenCiv

Huck Finn is the first novel I read on the kindle I got for Christmas - n word and all. Although it was before I knew about the controversy, I never thought downloading a book I read many times as a child would turn out to be an act of political defiance.

I will never forget that firemen in this country used to put out the fires.


26 posted on 01/07/2011 11:12:10 PM PST by naturalized
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To: naturalized

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060390/quotes?qt0446618

prescient


27 posted on 01/07/2011 11:17:36 PM PST by naturalized
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To: naturalized
I will never forget that firemen in this country used to put out the fires.

Great writing has pores ...

30 posted on 01/08/2011 1:03:20 AM PST by RJR_fan (The press corpse is going through the final stages of Hopium withdrawal. That leg tingle is urine.)
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To: naturalized

kudos on the F451 reference.


42 posted on 01/08/2011 8:57:01 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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