To be honest, I'm still not too thrilled with many of these, but you have to love the fact that Louisa May Alcott found Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn unacceptable. In her comments she betrayed her complete lack of understanding of dialogue. Apparently she felt that Huck and Jim should speak in elegant grammatical phrases instead of in their rough natural dialect and character.
Yeah, that would have made it some delightful reading!
Like this from Huck:
"I do say, good sir, that if you refrain from posing questions you will be spared the ignominy of deciphering my deliberately coy and coded responses."
Or this from Jim:
"As an African-American man who has apparently committed self-manumission, to coin a phrase, I seem to be worth eight hundred dollars, and yet cannot claim the money for myself. Oh, the richness of the irony!"
Monday, May 18, 2015
21 Iconic Pieces Of Pop Culture (That Were Hated At First) | Cracked.com
21 Iconic Pieces Of Pop Culture (That Were Hated At First) | Cracked.com
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