Posted by
Lee Culpepper on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 1:23:54 PM
drcoolpepper@yahoo.com
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| Twain’s
1884 classic opens with a warning to the readers
who attempt to find a “motive, a moral, or a plot”
to the story. The key word in the sentence is
“attempting.” Clearly, those readers who fail to
find all three elements are the
mentally-encumbered morons to whom Twain refers,
when he states he would just as well see them
“prosecuted, banished, or shot.” To miss these
literary elements in the book would require
tremendous effort or just sheer
idiocy. |
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