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09-25-2008, 04:30 PM
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Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
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Charles Dickens - "Bleak House"
Does anyone else here like Dickens? I'm re-reading Bleak House, and the man just has a way with phrases and with using inanimate things to illustrate a person. I just finished re-reading Nicholas Nickleby and The Pickwick Papers, too, but Bleak House has always been one of my favorites.
I think I'll start just posting some of those good phrases as I go along, and anyone else please feel free to join in!
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun!  Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?*"How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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10-12-2008, 11:30 AM
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The Lady of Laughter
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oh i love that book its one of my fav's! ive only just started reading his books but so far bleak house is my fav!
i love the way he makes richard go from a young man ful of life to an bitter man made old before his time. I also liked mr george and miss flight and her birds the best. Love, hope, misery, dispair, death! she one weird lady! and all before of a court case that comes to nothing!
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10-13-2008, 04:23 PM
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Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
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And Jo's death - it always makes me cry - the description of the dragging cart ...
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?*"How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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10-14-2008, 01:07 PM
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The Lady of Laughter
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oh poor jo!
was molly the name of the young woman who looked after him a bit? lady deadlock? oh i always thought she was a bit creepy!
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12-22-2008, 12:33 PM
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Elf Lady
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They acted out parts of this book in the place where I go to school. It's an annual event, but this year people had to line up to be allowed to go into the city. Very famous.
Try googling for 'Deventer AND Dickens'.
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