[lbo-talk] Who was Charles Dickens?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Aug 15 16:53:57 PDT 2010


Chuck, the first paragraph alone of Bleak House may find its equals in Shakespeare, Milton, Austen, etc but there is nothing in English better than it -- and it takes the whole long fucking novel to explicate that paragraph -- which incidentally does not contain a single complete sentence. It is a huge cluster of subordinate clauses.

Carrol



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