Anything not to write...

[lil_shepherd]

Meme time.

coth gave me the letter D which I found incredibly difficult. It's a letter people don't seem to love very much

Comments

[fjm]

Me too re Dickens. When I first read Trollopw's comment about Mr Sentimental the journalist I laughed out loud with recognition.

[lil_shepherd]

Indeed. I'm also not keen on his grotesques and his moralising. His heroes are generally just the sort of people I don't want to read about. We 'did' Great Expectations at school and I had some sympathy for every single character except the protagonist.

[helflaed]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who feels that way about Dickens- whilst his plots are good, he ruins them by making them about ten times as long as they needed to be...

Could you give me a letter?

[lil_shepherd]

All us Dickens haters are coming out of the woodwork.

How about T?

[lil_shepherd]

Let's try N for Nyrond.

[magically25]

Dickens was meant to have been horrible wasn't he?
Depressing writing in depressing times :-(
Gota letter?

[lil_shepherd]

How about L?

[shewhomust]

Caught site of the cathedral round the back of the bus station yesterday, all painted with the low sunlight, and thought, oh, yes, Durham really is beautiful, isn't it? Since on Tuesday we go to the Planning Committee to oppose retrospective planning consent, it's good to be reminded of this!

[lil_shepherd]

Good luck with the planning committee.

[verrucaria]

Well, Dickens was judicious in the use of words in comparison to, say, Victor Hugo, but he did give in to peer pressure with respect of killing off his prostitute characters, as it would have been difficult to "morally" deal with them otherwise.