Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Yea, Huck, that's pretty much how I feel

SparkNotes No Fear Literature: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Chapter 4 

WELL, three or four months run along, and it was well into the winter now. I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don’t reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don’t take no stock in mathematics, anyway.
That's pretty much the way I feel about mathematics.

Lucille

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