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Mostly dry but every once in a while he’ll say the most based shit like “It must be a poor life that achieves freedom from fear.” or “I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.”

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Chapter 11 and 16 contain related messages.

Chapter 11 is after Huck and Jim find books in the house that washed down the river, and Jim contemplates reading them but fears being caught by Huck. He then realizes that there would be no way of telling if he was actually reading, or just looking at the words, and this this is the actual power