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...In a passage that calls to mind Huckleberry Finn, he drifts downriver in a boat, then hops a freight train, winding up in a South Carolina town called DuPray....
...It has delineated the boundaries between known and unknown and between rival empires; it has scythed off the corners of states. Sometimes it forces its tributaries to flow backwards....
...The “little fellow” was compared to both Huckleberry Finn and Hamlet. In 1914 Chaplin made 36 films. By 1915 he was the most famous person in the world, the “emblem of popular culture”....
...On their first morning there they wake up “on the mudflats between nightmares and the ropy unknown day”....
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