Dicks, Indeed

As someone who loves Charles Dickens - right now I'm pretending to read Bleak House, thank you very much - I am of course sad to read that the building which inspired Oliver Twist's "please sir, I want some more" moment is now being developed into luxury condos:

The apartment building will be called Cleveland Court, a name that sounds both elegant and ahistoric. This irritates Dr. Richardson, who always wanted the place to once again serve as a hospital and said it could have been extremely useful during the pandemic. She’s irked, too, that new residents may be oblivious to the building’s singular past. There are no plans to affix one of those round blue plaques that commemorate significant locales all over London.

So on Tuesday, she made one online, a mock-up that represents her fondest wish.

“London workhouse + pauper graveyard,” it says on the top. “Deep history on & in this site forever because Oliver Twist was born here.”

“I tried to add, ‘The owners of this building don’t want you to know this,’” she added with a laugh. “But it didn’t fit.”

I guess we should be more surprised this hasn't already happened years earlier? Also: was  Dickens the Sixth Beatle?

More importantly, he was partly responsible for the greatest tv show of all time:

3) CHARLES DICKENS.

It’s no secret that John Sullivan was a fan of the work of the great English writer; Charles Dickens, who’s work includes such notable masterpieces such as OLIVER TWIST and A CHRISTMAS CAROL both of which have never been out of print. Charles dickens also observed the complex English mannerisms of the public then portrayed elegantly through his creations.

John Sullivan proved to be a maestro of making his characters believable to the viewer, no matter how ludicrous the situation they often found themselves in, this alarming level of talent is mirrored through the work of Dickens, an author that inspired John Sullivan to create the incredibly intangible comedy of OFAH.