Reply #9: Why ban Mark Twain?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn#Controversy

Huckleberry Finn is not an imaginary person. He still lives; or rather they still live; for Huckleberry Finn is two persons in one -- namely, the author's two uncles, the present editors of the Boston Advertiser and the Springfield Republican. In character, language, clothing, education, instinct, and origin, he is the painstakingly and truthfully drawn photograph and counterpart of these two gentlemen as they were in the time of their boyhood, forty years ago. The work has been most carefully and conscientiously done, and is exactly true to the originals, in even the minutest particulars, with but one exception, and that is a trifling one: this boy's language has been toned down and softened, here and there, in deference to the taste of a more modern and fastidious day.

— Mark Twain