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There Is A Question I Have Been Waiting For A Twain Scholar To Ask

But who knows when that will happen and it is this:

In _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court_, what is up with Twain’s obsession with the disposession of the heirs of medieval suicides? He just keeps coming back to the injustice of this in a way that has nothing at all to do with the plot, and I can’t help but think he was expecting his audience to make some connection that I’m not.

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