Me, the other day: Fuck this, I'm gonna stop reading Bleak House!
The Internet Today: Bleak House is awesome for right now and you should read it!
Dickens once complained that without the buzzing life and teeming crowds of London, his imagination grew cramped. London, he wrote, was his “magic lantern”; his characters “seem disposed to stagnate without crowds about them.” Dickens needed the city, and the city needed Dickens. As we re-stitch urban life after two years of dislocation, Bleak House might reveal the secret principles that underlie the city as a system.
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