#PercivalEverett" “My writing ‘James’ is not in any way an indictment of #Twain at all,” #Everett told NPR. “I’m writing the novel that Twain was not ill-equipped, but unequipped to write. That being the story of Jim. So I consider this more as being in discourse with Twain.”
#PercivalEverett" “My writing ‘James’ is not in any way an indictment of #Twain at all,” #Everett told NPR. “I’m writing the novel that Twain was not ill-equipped, but unequipped to write. That being the story of Jim. So I consider this more as being in discourse with Twain.”
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Attributed (probably incorrectly) to Mark Twain. I concur and it has got worse as I have grown older.