Thought for the Day: About Motive, Moral, and Plot

"NOTICE

"PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

"BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance."

"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Mark Twain (1884 (England), 1885 (United States))

(From "The Project Gutenberg EBook of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Mark Twain, via Project Guttenberg)