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I was going to quote this part too. I still get chills when I read this.

One of the greatest passages in all of American literature. It is the key moment in the book. And it washes all the n word criticism away.

It's been almost tweny years since I read this book. I still remember reading those words for the first time. It brought tears to my eyes, and I felt an excitement that I had never felt before from reading a book. To this day, Finn remains my fravorite hero of all, and Clemens my favorite author of all. Istill get goosebumps whenever I read those words.

My favorite part of the book!

It's the human dilemma, isn't it? A cat just sleeps, but we are cursed (or blessed) with thinking. So a great piece of writing it certainly is, and it resonates within us. What to do, when to do it, what might the consequences be?

Cats just sleep, eat, and go back to sleep again. They worry about security, and having a human servant, and if they are confident enough they'll give you a cordial head butt, offer their throats for a tickle, purr, and drift off back to sleep again. John Walker.

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Isn't it irritating when they don't allow apostrophes? John Walker

More than a key quote, it's the true climax to the story. The Tom Sawyer nonsense that follows is a lengthy denouement that echoes the books opening chapters. When Huck casts off the values he grew up with and accepts new ones that reflect everything he learned on the trip, the journey (and the story) are complete. I've read this book perhaps two dozen times, and I'm in the middle of it again.

Great quote, great piece of writing. Incredibly wise. If you read tom Sawyer first it has even more resonance. Brilliant.

I agree that it is best to read Tom Sawyer first.

I owned both books as a child and read them repeatedly. As a parent, I read both to my son, and we laughed our rears off together. A bright boy, he understood the irony and the humor. Reading those books together is one of my fond memories of his childhood.

I did have to stop at times to explain not only the racist aspects of the language and why it was in the book, but also to explain the meanings of quite a few old southern expressions he'd never heard before. They were not racist; they just had no application to modern life and his cultural experience, thus, he had no clue what they meant.

It really made me aware how different my childhood was from my own children's; as I'd grown up one of the last of my generation exposed to people from very rural, southern culture. Even my siblings just several years younger than I share fewer conscious memories from that culture and those relatives. It really hit home how past cultural experiences and points-of-view disappear far more quickly now than they once did. Current generations, with something new following right on the heels of something else that was considered new, all of which they learn and adjust to quickly (easily displacing what had come before) do not share emotional memories and cultural concepts of even their older baby-boomer parents. It is inevitable, but it makes me feel a little sad.

One of my favorite moments in this book. It brought tears to my eyes and gave goosebumps. Thanks for sharing it.

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Gives me chills every time.

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This got stuck in my mind.

Reading Sun Also Rises and this quote is echoed in Jake Barnes trying to pray but admitting he is a poor Catholic. And EH loved Twain