Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Footnotes for "Questioning Huck Finn"
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(In some places, exact page numbers are still lacking. Apologies.)
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1. In particular, compare the verbal duelists/resistant lovers Benedick and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing to the comparatively bland Claudio and Hero.
2. Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Arlington House, Inc. New York, NY, 1983, p. 223.
3. Twain, p.226.
4. Plato, Five Dialogues, ed. G.M.A. Grube, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, 1981, p. 73 [84c].
5. Plato, p. 73 [84b]. The “torpedo fish” is sometimes alternatively translated as “stingray.”
6. Adler, Mortimer J. Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind, 1977, Collier Books, Macmillan Publ. Co. New York, NY.
7. Sontag, Against Interpretation.
8. Lecture, Moscow Art Theater, March 1997, recounting an earlier lecture in the U.S.
9. Plato, p. 73 [84 b-d].
10. Plato, p. 73 [84d].
11. Lecture, Florida State University, December 1998.
12. Compare this idea with the Biblical passage” seek and ye shall find, ask and you shall receive...”
13. The first lines are from Hamlet, 2.2, 193; the second phrase is of course from Macbeth, 5.5, 27-8.
14. Plato, p. 76 [86b].
15. Plato, p. 76 [86b].
16. Especially if he were a typically anxious American parent or teacher...
17. Not surprisingly, the “clear vessel” or nice glass for Elijah Muhammad is Islam.
18. The full quotation by King is: “Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding. It seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leave society in a monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.”
Return to the essay.
(In some places, exact page numbers are still lacking. Apologies.)
Return to the essay.
1. In particular, compare the verbal duelists/resistant lovers Benedick and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing to the comparatively bland Claudio and Hero.
2. Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Arlington House, Inc. New York, NY, 1983, p. 223.
3. Twain, p.226.
4. Plato, Five Dialogues, ed. G.M.A. Grube, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, 1981, p. 73 [84c].
5. Plato, p. 73 [84b]. The “torpedo fish” is sometimes alternatively translated as “stingray.”
6. Adler, Mortimer J. Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind, 1977, Collier Books, Macmillan Publ. Co. New York, NY.
7. Sontag, Against Interpretation.
8. Lecture, Moscow Art Theater, March 1997, recounting an earlier lecture in the U.S.
9. Plato, p. 73 [84 b-d].
10. Plato, p. 73 [84d].
11. Lecture, Florida State University, December 1998.
12. Compare this idea with the Biblical passage” seek and ye shall find, ask and you shall receive...”
13. The first lines are from Hamlet, 2.2, 193; the second phrase is of course from Macbeth, 5.5, 27-8.
14. Plato, p. 76 [86b].
15. Plato, p. 76 [86b].
16. Especially if he were a typically anxious American parent or teacher...
17. Not surprisingly, the “clear vessel” or nice glass for Elijah Muhammad is Islam.
18. The full quotation by King is: “Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding. It seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leave society in a monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.”
Return to the essay.
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