The Tom Sawyer problem first became known to me way back in 10th grade, when it was assigned reading by my English teacher (who was young, red-haired, & considered pretty hot by a certain teenaged student, btw), then next semester she discovered it was already on the banned list, & begged all of us never to tell anyone we read it in class...I always felt that Mr Clements was actually far ahead of his time in terms of racial attitudes, but as a writer he was just using the words that a real-life 19th century Missouri boy would have used...


Is "pussyfication" actually a word? I guess it is now, I kinda like it...

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