Percival Everett
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24 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Percival Everett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Right. In fairness to the novel, it has flawed. It is flawed in that Twain stopped in the middle of it and then came back to it. And when he came back to it, I think there were some mercenary considerations at stake, and so it becomes more of an adventure. Tom Sawyer comes back into the novel, and the tone of the novel changes.
It's less an exploration of Huck's confusion about Jim and his condition, and more of a pure adventure. And so I'm addressing that as well. I'm trying to get past that switch in tone that happens. But more importantly, I'm writing the novel that Twain could not. He was not equipped to do it.
And apparently the word scares people. Quite frankly, if someone came into my study right now and shouted at me, you dirty N-word, I'd be just as offended as if they actually used that six-letter word that I just said. It's all about intention and meaning.
It behooves fascists to ban it because there is a proper and direct interrogation of what it's like to live in a world where slavery is prevalent. And where con men and hucksters are running rampant. It's an American story. And that honest depiction is probably what scares some people.
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