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Thread #59418 Message #1709064
Posted By: Rapparee
02-Apr-06 - 06:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
May god forgive such dimbulbs.
God had better, 'cause I won't. Not if they're Charles Lamb, or Bowdler, or whomever.
The first time I read Huck Finn the part about the King and Duke stealing the inheritance and some other parts were left out -- I never read them until college. But! Jim was refered to as in Twain's original, Injun Joe was Injun Joe, the description of the attack planned on the Widow Douglas was left in, the eventual end of the King and Duke was left in...why the parts that were left out were censored I have no idea. And Huck's "Well, then, I'll go to Hell!" still resonants from that first, censored, edition.