I believe Tom Sawyer was an illustrated book. Here is the cover page... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tom_Sawyer
But the thread topic is Best Sentence and I was responding to TG's on-topic post. (Does racism have to be in every thread now?)
I was just teasing, Beth. Your mention of your ringtone just struck me as funny. You're right; there has been no settled topic. I didn't start the topic to talk about racism.
It was NOT banned back then, Dwight. The "N" word was NOT considered racist in that era. The ORIGINAL PRINTING is banned today. Hal
William Wells Brown comes to mind as a major black author of Clotel (or The President’s Daughter) in the mid 1800’s. Then there’s Booker T. Washington and even a lady whose name escapes me for the present time. Needless to say that it might have been harder for a black person to publish but evidence shows that it wasn’t impossible. Alas, as our lady @Beth Gallagher has opined, the subject matter is indeed supposed to be focused upon Holmes, Twain and that long sentence so I do humbly give way to the next on-topic posts.
Mostly agreed. I was too categorical that a black author could 'never' be published. I've apologized to Beth. The topic was , indeed, not racism. I was of the impression that black writers might publish on their personal experience of slavery, but when it came to novel writing tor other art hey would be rejected. I stand corrected. Damn, I hate to be wrong so much. Maybe I should start my own forum where I can be right 100% of the time.
When I took that Early American Literature class, we read some of the very first American writings: -Slave narratives -Captive narratives (written by women who survived being captured by Native Americans) Fascinating stuff, in it's own way. Many of the women's stories are not what you think they might be.
That's what @Ken Anderson thought but you see how that worked out. (Do not ban me, Ken. ) You guys need to stop apologizing about being 'off-topic.' Sheesh, I feel like the thread police.
Speaking of the thread police, are there any more fabric shops in business??????? And I had to go look as to why I did not comment on that Zevon line. I typed the whole thing out and changed my mind, I guess. Poor bastard, dying so young of mesothelioma from likely childhood exposure.
You are absolutely correct, @Beth Gallagher , and the whole thread stayed on topic until it got “Pollnerized”. Anytime Hal is not interested in a topic, he just throws in some controversial statement, and it always seems to work for him, because after that the whole thread is off topic. I will see if I can find a thread where the racism posts will fit, and move those posts to there. Hopefully, now, we are back on topic again, about long, convoluted sentences.