In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the raft taking Huck down the Mississippi was plowed in half by a large steamboat. At the last second, Huck dove overboard and swam for his life. Lost and alone, he wanders ashore and the Grangerford family takes him in. Now prior to Huck’s arrival, the Grangerford family had lost a daughter, Emmeline who died at age fifteen. Emmeline had been a girl with a strange obsession: Death. A poet and an artist, Huck tells us about her drawings.
“They was different from any pictures I ever see before—blacker, mostly, than is common…
“Another one was a young lady with her hair all combed up straight to the top of her head, and knotted there in front of a comb like a chair-back, and she was crying into a handkerchief and had a dead bird laying on its back in her other hand with its heels up, and underneath the picture it said ‘I Shall Never Hear Thy Sweet Chirrup More Alas.’
There was one where a young lady was at a window looking up at the moon, and tears running down her cheeks; and she had an open letter in one hand with black sealing-wax showing on one edge of it, and she was mashing a locket with a chain to it against her mouth, and underneath the picture it said ‘And Art Thou Gone Yes Thou Art Gone Alas.’
The neighbors would say that “Every time a man died, or a woman died, or a child died, she would be on hand with her ‘tribute’ before he was cold. She called them tributes. The neighbors said it was the doctor first, then Emmeline, then the undertaker…”
Death is what she thought about. It occupied her mind.
And then the poor girl got sick and died herself.
Mark Twain was a satirist. And I can’t help suspecting that he was making fun of how we tend to get what we focus on. What we dwell on.
Most of us allow our minds to wander where it shouldn’t go. It then returns with things we didn’t want.
We think about our past frustrations and disappointments and worry it will always be that way.
When something doesn’t go as we hoped, we blame ourselves rather than just accepting what happened as a simple reality.
We spend so much of our mental energy dwelling on what we don’t want.
And then we get more of it.
The days become months and the months become years.
This is life we’re talking about. The only one you’ve got.
Alas, Are Thou Gone Yes Thou Art Gone Alas.
Why do people fall into this trap?
Simply because it’s what they know. And they think that’s the way “it” is.
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Dov Gordon
