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For me, the funniest part of Huckleberry Finn is an example of what our author Ralph Luker calls “sampling.” Twain’s bogus King and his equally fraudulent Duke of Bilgewater are planning to present an evening of theater, and the Duke is casting about for a suitable finale. He seizes on the immortal soliloquy from Hamlet, and, after a struggle, he “call[s] it back from recollection’s vaults.” To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature’s second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of. above: In this issue’s “Not Forgotten,” Amy Weldon explores the fruits of her memories and harvests recollections of snake-ridden orchards and scuppernongs. 1 The grandiloquent Duke sweeps on for eighteen more glorious lines, and Huck declares that he “just knocked the spots out of any acting ever I see before.” In Luker’s terms, the Duke was “sampling,” or mixing and matching material from a variety of literary sources—in
Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 30, 2003
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