MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Mark Twain wrote that "the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." A new edition of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer" will try to find out if that holds true by replacing the N-word with "slave" in an effort not to offend readers.
really? am i just kind of a dick in thinking one ought not to fancy themselves more capable of writing Mark Twain's novel than, say, Mark Twain was?
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