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To: Kaslin

...it was "the most grotesque example of racist trash ever written," in Wallace's estimation...

Clearly, Mr. Wallace never read the book.

2 posted on 01/06/2011 7:26:42 AM PST by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)

To: WayneS

Yes, I guess the relationship between Huck and Jim that Twain so carefully crafted would be considered racist according to Wallace.

Blacks and whites talking together, oh the humanity!

6 posted on 01/06/2011 7:32:39 AM PST by montyspython

To: WayneS

Knew this was coming after they rewrote Catcher in the Rye to mak it PC.

9 posted on 01/06/2011 7:44:31 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)

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