“Jim, this is nice,” I says. “I wouldn’t want to be nowhere else but here. Pass me along another hunk of fish and some hot corn-bread.”

Re-reading this classic felt like that. Hanging out on the barge with Huck and Jim – eating corn bread. I didn’t want to be anywhere else. There are stories that shape us in a real, measurable way. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of those stories for me.