February 5, 2009

Tell Cindy

to grab a big fluffy white towel to comfort her before reading what’s below:

Today I finished reading Trollope’s The Small House at Allington and started Dickens’ Bleak House. I also ordered Trollope’s The Last Chronicle of Barset and Richard Hughes’s The Fox in the Attic.

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  1. Sheila Ryan on February 6th, 2009 at 1:01 am

    Cooper. Cooper. Bleak House. You do know, do you not, of my obsession with spontaneous human combustion?

    It is how I have arranged to make my exit.

  2. Sheila Ryan on February 6th, 2009 at 1:04 am

    “I shall not abandon the facts until there shall have been a considerable Spontaneous Combustion of the testimony on which human occurrences are usually received.” (Dickens’s preface to the 1853 edition of Bleak House)

  3. Cindy Scroggins on February 6th, 2009 at 9:20 am

    Fucking 19th century.

    I’ll have you know, Senor Renner, that I read all of Dickens in my misspent youth. In fact, I was obsessed with Charles Dickens for several years. But I got over it.

    Where’s that towel?

  4. Sheila Ryan on February 6th, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Cindy said “19th century”.

  5. RYAN on February 7th, 2009 at 12:53 am

    I HAVE HAD A GOOD AMOUNT TO DRINK TONIGHT. NOT THE STUFF THE GUY IN BLEAK HOUSE THAT OWNS THE STORE THAT HAS THE PAPERS THAT ARE IMPORTANT LIKES BUT BOOZE NEVERTHELESS. I LOVE BLEAK HOUSE. DID I PERHAPS FORM AN ILL-CONCEIVED MASTER’S THESIS AROUND IT ONE TIME? NO. I DID THAT FOR OUR MUTUAL FRIEND.
    SCULLY AS DEDLOCK=GENIUS! PERFECT ESTHER TOO, IN THE MOST RECENT PBS ADAPTATION.

  6. Cindy Scroggins on February 7th, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    I like it when people get drunk and start talking about Dickens.

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