Alan Eliasen wrote: > > I think that any of us posed with the Herculean task of distilling all of > the interesting events of Twain's life into 4 hours would soon despair. It's > like trying to cram an elephant into a hatbox. Or the weather into New England :-). I liked the show, in general. For what ever reason, I get very defensive when people call SLC a racist. And so, I thought that the Huck Finn part of the raft trip leading up to "all right, I'll go to hell" was very well done. I also appreciated the reading of Twain's letter (which Shelley Fisher Fiskin calls "the smoking gun" in "Lighting out for the Territory") to the president of Yale offering assistance to a black student. Tony -- ... don't you meddle with old unloaded firearms. They are the most deadly and unerring things that have ever been created by man... A youth that can't hit a cathedral at thirty yards with a Gattling gun ... can take up an old and empty musket and bag his grandmother every time at a hundred.... Mark Twain