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Subject: Re: Twain and the 'N' word
From: David H Fears <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:40:47 EDT
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I suppose Sam's reference to "Nigger of the Narcissus"  doesn't count.

How silly--of course he used the word! It was common parlance in 19th
Century America...20th, too for most of it. Words change meaning and evolve.
I
remember well when "gay" meant festive.

David H Fears

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