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work_f7q5xalu7rc27eyfky4bn6a65u	Mark Woodhouse	"Flayed and then Hanged": Samuel Clemens Reads Pearl Island	2009	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3236	240	78	"Flayed and then Hanged": Samuel Clemens Reads Pearl Island "Flayed and then Hanged": Samuel Clemens Reads Pearl Island Samuel Clemens Reads Pearl Island Caster's Pearl Island, he notes that "Clemens penciled comments and markings throughout the book"1 and quotes a few illustrative remarks. Pearl Island provides evidence that Clemens found such reading not simply diverting but engaging. As Gribben notes, Clemens' focus when reading literature often had to Clemens writes: "His natural history is scissored out of the text-books"4 and again when Frank, the narrator, describes finding gold Clemens remarks Clemens, the experienced raftsman, comments "Green lumber for a raft?" Frank rescues Harry from a ledge Clemens calculates that he must have In addition to these sorts of comments about content, Clemens also makes As with other volumes marked by Clemens, the marginalia often reads as 4. Samuel Clemens, marginal note in Andrew Caster, Pearl Island (New York: Harper 	./cache/work_f7q5xalu7rc27eyfky4bn6a65u.pdf	./txt/work_f7q5xalu7rc27eyfky4bn6a65u.txt