Hi Novel Spirits, right now I'm at the beach and I'm having a great time! Delicious seafood, warm and sunny weather, the ocean, swimming pools. Sadly though this is our last day. Vacations always fly by unfortunately.
But I wanted to make a post to share some of the funny scenes from Huckleberry Finn that I liked. I have been enjoying this book a lot. It is pretty funny. And usually Indy likes us to share some quotes or scenes we like during the meeting but I thought I'd go ahead and share a couple now. Rather than highlight them however, I just snapped a pic with my phone. Here's a brief summary of my first funny scene: Tom Sawyer gets all his friends together and forms a gang. He wants them to rob and kidnap. During their discussion, they figure that "ransom" means to kill and have a funny dialogue about how to "ransom" somebody. Additionally, Tom explains that you don't ransom the women, you just be very nice to them and they fall in love with you. It's a lot funnier in the book than the way I just explained it.
A funny quote than Huck said: He was patrolling around his island I think, and he was pretty scared since he thought someone else was staying on the island too. And he said "I warn't feeling very brash, there warn't much sand in my craw." For whatever reason, I really like that, and if I can remember it, I will say "There ain't much sand in my craw" as often as appropriate.
Last one (just for the ladies): Huck and Jim are arguing about the story of Soloman the Wise. They are talking about how he's so smart and what a King does all day: Huck says that he has to fool around with the Parlyment from time to time and hack someone's head off every once in a while, but most of his time is hanging out with the harem. So Jim asks what is a harem and Huck explains that a harem is about a million wives. So then Jim decides that Solomon is absolutely NOT the wisest man ever, because why "would a wise man want to live in de mids' er sich blim-blammin' all de time?" I thought that was hilarious!!! He goes on to say that Solomon would have been better off building a boiler factory because you can at least turn factories off. ahahahahahahahaha.
They also argue about how Solomon could be the wisest man ever if his soluction to two women arguing over the custody of a child is to cut the child in half...... hilarity ensues.
See you all next weekend :-)
Baron
i meant to add a bit about by power back, hence the "old age" portion of the title. But I forgot, so I'll just add a brief comment. I've been playing around with Bean and Taz at the pool and ocean, throwing them around, slamming them down etc. Well I must have pulled muscles in my lower back but its been several days and still hurting. That worries me. Back in the day, if I even pulled a muscle at all doing this type of stuff, it would get better in just a couple days. Ugh. Woe is me.
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