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The N-word is for “Nonsense”
A work that aspires, however, humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. The great novelist Joseph Conrad wrote those words in a literary manifesto called “A Preface to the Nigger of the ‘Narcissus.’ ” Oops, I mean “Slave of the Narcissus.” Or should it be “The Children of the [...]
“He told the truth, mainly.” –Huck Finn
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. –Notice at the opening of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn America doesn’t have a national holiday to honor a writer. But if [...]
