An Original Relation

He was interested in his own primary, personal religious experience and that of his parishioners, not in repeating and deferring to the reported religious experiences of long-departed historical personages.  When he studied, say, the Book of Proverbs, he no longer thought of himself as a commentator but as the potential author of a similar book.  (Richardson, Emerson: The Mind on Fire, p 90.)

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After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.  (Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)