Dickens Watch 2015
This is just a brief update. Work has been grueling of late, I've been trying to write my one page per night, and damn those seasonal allergies. Anyway, I thought it worth mentioning that I've put aside Bleak House for now. I was into it for a short while, but somewhere around the time the heroine met Mr. Jarndyce, or whatever his name, I stopped caring. I'm not sure how many pages I am into the book... my Kindle tells me 8%. I'll try again, really. Some observations: Dickens uses a mixture of styles that I had considered to be "modern" and hadn't really seen in other Victorian novels (though my catalogue is far from complete). The first chapter begins almost like free-verse poetry, written by someone on crack: "As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill." Bo