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Bookpossum · 08-01-2016, 08:17 AM

Thanks for this fantasyfan - some interesting comments and thoughts. I enjoyed it more than you did, but I can see what you mean by Twain telling us rather than showing us.

I'm prepared to cut him a lot of slack because of his passion for justice and equality of treatment for all people, remembering that he was a young man in his 20s during the Civil War, and so knew something about the degradation and horror of slavery.

08-01-2016, 08:17 AM	#24
Bookpossum Snoozing in the sun Posts: 10,146 Karma: 115423645 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: iPad Mini, Kobo Touch	Thanks for this fantasyfan - some interesting comments and thoughts. I enjoyed it more than you did, but I can see what you mean by Twain telling us rather than showing us. I'm prepared to cut him a lot of slack because of his passion for justice and equality of treatment for all people, remembering that he was a young man in his 20s during the Civil War, and so knew something about the degradation and horror of slavery.