Thanks! Rather poignant, that. DDD On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 5:25 PM Bird, John C. <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Ah! Found it! Notebooks and Journals, Vol. 3. 1883- 1891. In notebook 30, > from August 1890-June 1891.p. 606. > > Two entries: > > Huck comes back, 60 years old, from nobody knows where--and crazy. Thinks > he is a boy again, & scans every face for Tom & Becky, etc. > > Tom comes at last, 60 from wandering the world & tends Huck, & together > they talk the old times; both are desolate, life has been a failure, all > that was lovable, all that was beautiful is under the mould. They die > together. > > John Bird > > > > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone > > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Dave Davis <[log in to unmask]> > Date: 3/2/21 5:09 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Citation to a discussion of the MT fragment about Tom > and Huck as old men > > IIRC, he jotted down about 10 lines of a projected tale in which Huck > returns as a senile old man, not realizing that he's been gone from St. > Petersburg for decades, and begins asking around for their old friends; > after which sad scene, Tom is located and calms him down, comforting him > ... > > And that's all. Where did I read that? It's not in anything I have on my > shelf, except possibly the (full) Autobiography? > > Thanks for any and all pointers. > > /DDD > > CAUTION: This message originated from an external source >