Conan O'Brien

I'm constantly being bombarded with those because the algorithm figures it out. They would have figured out Twain.

Well, I mean, I think it's a really interesting area because, as you know, you talk about it a lot in your book, Huck Finn is very controversial. On one hand, Ernest Hemingway said the American literature begins with Huck Finn. And many great writers have said that is the first great, great, truly great original American creative novel. But it's got the N-word in it countless times.

Well, I mean, I think it's a really interesting area because, as you know, you talk about it a lot in your book, Huck Finn is very controversial. On one hand, Ernest Hemingway said the American literature begins with Huck Finn. And many great writers have said that is the first great, great, truly great original American creative novel. But it's got the N-word in it countless times.

Well, I mean, I think it's a really interesting area because, as you know, you talk about it a lot in your book, Huck Finn is very controversial. On one hand, Ernest Hemingway said the American literature begins with Huck Finn. And many great writers have said that is the first great, great, truly great original American creative novel. But it's got the N-word in it countless times.

Yet it also is exploring a real relationship between... Jim and Huck and and and Jim is not a cardboard character. And so but and the N word is part of the dialect of that time. But for that reason, a lot of people say it should be banned. It shouldn't be read or the word should be removed. And you think if he were alive today. And he'd be canceled for things he did when he's 20 years old.

Yet it also is exploring a real relationship between... Jim and Huck and and and Jim is not a cardboard character. And so but and the N word is part of the dialect of that time. But for that reason, a lot of people say it should be banned. It shouldn't be read or the word should be removed. And you think if he were alive today. And he'd be canceled for things he did when he's 20 years old.

Yet it also is exploring a real relationship between... Jim and Huck and and and Jim is not a cardboard character. And so but and the N word is part of the dialect of that time. But for that reason, a lot of people say it should be banned. It shouldn't be read or the word should be removed. And you think if he were alive today. And he'd be canceled for things he did when he's 20 years old.

I mean, in his personal correspondence, when he's writing about race, before he's evolved. And when I was reading that, I was thinking, we live in this era now where kids go online and do things, say things. And they get tagged. Like, you're the kid who said that. You're the kid that did this. You're the kid that sang that. You're the kid.

I mean, in his personal correspondence, when he's writing about race, before he's evolved. And when I was reading that, I was thinking, we live in this era now where kids go online and do things, say things. And they get tagged. Like, you're the kid who said that. You're the kid that did this. You're the kid that sang that. You're the kid.

I mean, in his personal correspondence, when he's writing about race, before he's evolved. And when I was reading that, I was thinking, we live in this era now where kids go online and do things, say things. And they get tagged. Like, you're the kid who said that. You're the kid that did this. You're the kid that sang that. You're the kid.

And I don't know, you know, there wouldn't be a Mark Twain. He couldn't exist in a world that's keeping account where anyone can say, wait a minute, we just found something in your personal correspondence or in a speech you gave when you were 25. You're canceled. You're done.

And I don't know, you know, there wouldn't be a Mark Twain. He couldn't exist in a world that's keeping account where anyone can say, wait a minute, we just found something in your personal correspondence or in a speech you gave when you were 25. You're canceled. You're done.

And I don't know, you know, there wouldn't be a Mark Twain. He couldn't exist in a world that's keeping account where anyone can say, wait a minute, we just found something in your personal correspondence or in a speech you gave when you were 25. You're canceled. You're done.

Although he was puritanical about sex.

Although he was puritanical about sex.

Although he was puritanical about sex.

Which I totally get. And it's only late in life that he starts to kind of... I mean, that's another thing you bring up in the book, and I don't know that we have the time to go into it, but it's a facet of his life, late in life, he is hanging around a lot of young women. When I say young women, age is what? 10 to 16. 10 to 16. Ugh.

Which I totally get. And it's only late in life that he starts to kind of... I mean, that's another thing you bring up in the book, and I don't know that we have the time to go into it, but it's a facet of his life, late in life, he is hanging around a lot of young women. When I say young women, age is what? 10 to 16. 10 to 16. Ugh.

Which I totally get. And it's only late in life that he starts to kind of... I mean, that's another thing you bring up in the book, and I don't know that we have the time to go into it, but it's a facet of his life, late in life, he is hanging around a lot of young women. When I say young women, age is what? 10 to 16. 10 to 16. Ugh.

And what's interesting about it is that there's no evidence that there was anything sexual about it. Right. No one... And he seemed... He was depressed. I'm not making excuses because it was strange. Everyone noticed it. Yeah. What did he call them? He called them his angel fish.