The New Yorker discovers evidence of Twitter use in Dickens. Sort of.
[…] has a couple of photos from the London set of Ti West’s new Christmas Carol adaptation. Along with Depp…
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I love the paragraph they selected. Dickens was really talented.
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Fascinating article. What I thought interesting was that the author called Dickens a pessimist. I think if he was anything it certainly wasn’t a pessimist. He was a very, very clear-sighted, angry, and hopeful optimist. Why else would he write Ebenezer Scrooge and people like him? Why, the whole point of Bleak House is that it’s named after a house that was once bleak and has been made very much un-bleak, which is a picture of what Dickens was trying to do for his society as a whole. No pessimist would ever hope and dream that such a thing could happen, surely.
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That line caught my eye, too. I love your point about the name of Bleak House!!
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It didn’t occur to me until I was writing my comment above. 😀
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