You are right. This is a radically different way---a different way to promote a book. >>> [log in to unmask] 3/25/2004 6:22:09 PM >>> Dear Friends: I have been biting my tongue for a couple of weeks now reading the discussion of Twain's use of "nigger." It is a significant issue, I think most would agree, but it did seem to go on a bit. I wonder if it wouldn't be refreshing to end the discussion by looking at the matter from a radically different, though I hope both edifying and amusing, perspective. It comes in a chapter from a novel I am writing. In the chapter Sam, to whom Huck plays alter ego, challenges Huck, as author of the "Adventures," on his excessive use of "nigger," triggering in Huck a typical Huck Finnian response. Please drop me (do we need a new idiom here?) an email if you would like to see the chapter -- at dshkrh3@hotmail,com david hoopes _________________________________________________________________ Get reliable access on MSN 9 Dial-up. 3 months for the price of 1! (Limited-time offer) http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup&pgmarket=en-us&ST=1/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/ ----------------------------------------------------- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses Automatic GroupWise signature added by GWAVASIG ----------------------------------------------------- <<<<gwavasig>>>>