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Tom Sawyer and Tom Wiswell

January 30, 2022 |

tom was able to enjoy life while he could and that is how I would like to live my life, taking it as it comes and enjoying it while i can, not worrying about the bad outcomes which might follow. that is one of the more important themes in this book, to live and make life the best as possible while you can and it will sooner or later pay off. I think that throughout the book, when Mark Twain mad Tom's childhood sound like so much fun it inspired me to grow and have as much fun in my childhood as Tom did in his. so i guess when I say that I most admire Tom Sawyer, you could also say that I admire Mark Twain and most of all, my father. (tom's father read the book to him since he was five. his father had a special way of reading it to tom that made the book so much better. he would use different voices for every character, change all the hard words to easy words so that they would fit in to the flow of the book, and he would elaborate on each scene to tell him the time when each particular incident happened to him.)

the only timeless advice Bernard Baruch got rite — in talking to Wiswell in 1929 he said, "Even in times of great unemployment people will need inexpensive forms of recreation and entertainment." Baruch was called the central park philosopher because he sat on a bench in CP. Based in part on that advice Wiswell and Grover opened two chess and checker clubs on eighth avenue and sixth avenue. Wiswell quit his job as a clerk at Chemical Bank and opened the clubs. (From the unpublished book Maxims, Mysteries and Memories.)

These reminiscences of Tom were inspired by the brilliant article in the Atlantic on Marion Tinsley.

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