 This is Huck Finn, one of my favorite characters when I was growing up. Moby Dick and Huck Finn kind of lived in my head for some time. Nobody else really occupied my mind much. Yeah, nice and seppy. Very close to Hannibal, where most of Mark Twain's important works were done. In many ways, Mark Twain's work has been the cornerstone of evolution of American literature. Because still then, I think everybody was trying to write in fine English language, sophisticated of the elite. But Mark Twain managed to capture the vivid nature of life and its struggles and its possibilities and its joys in the rough, raw language of the common people. Where the common people of the time here were upon these riverboats, doing work like logging, mining. Their language and their vocabulary was very limited. With that and various expressions of sounds which are not really words, which were used on a daily basis, like yes is yeah, which has all become part of today's language. He captured something so vivid and fantastic without too much usage of verbose. I think in many ways that is the cornerstone of evolution in American literature. I am paraphrasing, I'm not... I don't remember the words exactly. I think Ernest Hemingway said something like this, a great writer himself said, almost all American literature has come out of that one book, Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn. That's an unparalleled comment for anybody. So that's the kind of influence you had, that's the kind of influence you had upon American literature. And it's life in many ways. So today we are at Hannibal. Hannibal, people say, at least the tourist brochures say that is like one big love letter in appreciation of who Mark Twain was.