> 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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