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Barnhill, Jura. June 2015. (Thanks to the kindness of the Fletcher family).

Only sidewise movement

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Edited by John Gynn, Tuesday, 2 Apr 2019, 07:43

Mark Twain could have been writing about Brexit and the Commons' indicative vote process when he described the tense stand-off between Tom Sawyer and the boy who had shoes on (even though it was only Friday) on a summer evening in the little shabby village of St. Petersburg Missouri.

“If one moved, the other moved — but only sidewise, in a circle; they kept face to face and eye to eye all the time. Finally Tom said: ‘I can lick you!’ ‘I’d like to see you try it.’ ‘Well, I can do it.’ ‘No you can’t, either.’ ‘Yes I can.’ ‘No you can’t.’ ‘I can.’ ‘You can’t.’ ‘Can!’ ‘Can’t!’”

(The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter 1).


Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer Chapter 1



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