2005-02-22

Huck Finn

On page two (2!) of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck expresses two of my feelings about food, one about its preparation and one about the urgency of its consumption:

When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them, — that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

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