> On Nov 6, 2018, at 3:29 PM, James N. Powell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Greetings. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > My thesis is available on Kindle. I welcome any an all comments. > > > > https://www.amazon.com/River-Raft-Shore-Huckleberry-Mississippi-ebook/dp/B07 > JFR9R9M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8 > <https://www.amazon.com/River-Raft-Shore-Huckleberry-Mississippi-ebook/dp/B0 > 7JFR9R9M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541545218&sr=8-1&keywords=river+raft+and+sh > ore> &qid=1541545218&sr=8-1&keywords=river+raft+and+shore > > > > > > Most cordially, > > > > Jim Powell > > > > > > > >