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Divernan

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54. Charles Dickens absolutely agreed with your perspective.

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 11:21 AM

Dec 2015

Last weekend I went to a performance of Oliver Twist. I'm hard of hearing and the theatre company's customer relations person kindly emailed me a script of the particular adaptation in advance. This struck me when I read these lines, and particularly when I heard them delivered on the stage. Grimwig & Brownlow are two proper English gentlemen. Mr. Grimwig is the One Percenter/Scrooge (have we no workhouses?) character. Mr. Brownlow is the good-hearted man who goes to great lengths to track down and help Oliver, even before he learns that Oliver is in fact his niece's son.

MR. GRIMWIG: But what has this to do with the boy?
MR. BROWNLOW: Nothing, nothing at all – But I had a niece who felt un-loved – alone – betrayed and with nowhere to turn. And I did nothing to help her. If another one such passes through my life again – I must do what I can to help. This boy is one such.

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