Thanks!

Rather poignant, that.

DDD

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 5:25 PM Bird, John C. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Ah! Found it! Notebooks and Journals, Vol. 3. 1883- 1891. In notebook 30,
> from August 1890-June 1891.p. 606.
>
> Two entries:
>
> Huck comes back, 60 years old, from nobody knows where--and crazy. Thinks
> he is a boy again, & scans every face for Tom & Becky, etc.
>
> Tom comes at last, 60 from wandering the world & tends Huck, & together
> they talk the old times; both are desolate, life has been a failure, all
> that was lovable, all that was beautiful is under the mould. They die
> together.
>
> John Bird
>
>
>
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>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Dave Davis <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 3/2/21 5:09 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Citation to a discussion of the MT fragment about Tom
> and Huck as old men
>
> IIRC, he jotted down about 10 lines of a projected tale in which Huck
> returns as a senile old man, not realizing that he's been gone from St.
> Petersburg for decades, and begins asking around for their old friends;
> after which sad scene, Tom is located and calms him down, comforting him
> ...
>
> And that's all. Where did I read that? It's not in anything I have on my
> shelf, except possibly the (full) Autobiography?
>
> Thanks for any and all pointers.
>
> /DDD
>
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