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Nostradammit

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14. Oh yes!

Fri Feb 3, 2012, 09:21 PM

Feb 2012

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"...and I see so many parallels with poverty and meanness today."

And yet some of our noisiest authorities insist on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only!

Some people say his characters were too much caricature and one-dimensional but I think he was brilliant at latching on to a character's essence and illustrating it with repetition of behavior.
Some people really are just wicked and hopeless and some are hopelessly idealistic and self-sacrificing. The tapestry that makes the world.

Re: David Copperfield - every time we go to the beach I always wish I had a house there made out of an upturned boat. If I ever win the lottery I'm gonna build one, I swear.

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