Thanks! I have since found the lines (quoted elsewhere in WWW-land, but not with a citation: "Huck comes back, 60 years old, from nobody knows where—and crazy. Thinks he is a boy again, and scans always every face for Tom and Becky, etc. Tom comes at last from . . . wandering the world and tends Huck, and 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 mold. They die together. ” -- 1891 (?) On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 5:16 PM Bird, John C. <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I believe it is in the Notebooks, although I do not have the volumes handy. > > John > > > > 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 >