Looking a Long Way Off I’m only a little way into Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, but I couldn’t help but be impressed by his Mrs. Jellyby. The reader gets a first impression of her from the “biography” given by Mr. Kenge. “Mrs. Jellyby,” he says, “is a lady of very remarkable strength of character who devotes herself entirely …
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It is probably true that no one knows the value of strong relational ties like those who have experienced them and lost them. And perhaps, I have to some extent. But for me, a more familiar sense is the persistent and gentle ache of not having something essential. To be clear, the fact that I …
Allow me to celebrate, with Pickwickians everywhere, this, from the illustrious hand of no less a personage than the grand and eloquent authoress, Mrs. Leo Hunter: ‘Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log, Expiring frog!’ ‘Say have fiends in shape of boys …
