a word from "Huck Finn"

[Dan Goncharoff]

That's the issue that also has a review of a new book about the Book of
Revelations. The review was titled "The Last Reveal".
DanG


On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Ian Frazier in the March 5 _New Yorker_ (p. 26) has a brief article on a
> "Community Dialogue" on Staten Island about a certain word that appears in
> _Huckleberry Finn_.
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> What could the word be? Frazier doesn't say.
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> Anyway, "During the entire two-hour conversation, amost nothing from either
> 'Tom Sawyer' or 'Huckleberry Finn' was discussed, except the word."
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> Huh!
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> JL
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