James,

Sorry to hear about your misfortune during the recent floods. I saw the devastation en route tp a book signing in Santa Ynez.

Nice to hear there is another surfer in the group. You and others on the forum may be interested to hear that my new history of surfing releases later this month. (Pre-orders are being taken now.) It contains the results of much research I’ve done about Twain’s connection to surfing, particularly his own surfing attempt and lecture tour following his letters from Hawaii.

I’ve attached more details in an order form.

Dave Matuszak
 




> On Nov 6, 2018, at 3:29 PM, James N. Powell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Greetings. 
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> This is my first post. I've enjoyed the few I've read so far and am looking
> forward to reading more. Recently I was displaced by a debris flow, in
> Montecito, California. My home of some decades had been build beside a
> creek. The ground floor and environs were swept away. The second story was
> severed from the rest and floated downstream into the arms of an ancient
> oak. It housed my library. In grad school I had read my share of books by
> and about Twain. None of them were at all affected by the flow. 
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> My thesis was on Huck Finn and Life on the Mississippi. A kind of
> Huck-meets-Julia-Kristeva book. French feminism applied to Twain? Well, I
> didn't know of anyone else who had attempted it. As a surfer, I have long
> been fascinated with muscled waters. 
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> Having read some of the posts, I've learned that I am not the Twain scholar
> that many of you are. If my thesis inspires any of you to view Huck & Life
> in a new way, I will be happy. 
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> My thesis is available on Kindle. I welcome any an all comments.
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> Most cordially,
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> Jim Powell
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