The Justice Department’s case against Comey brings to mind the Jarndyce case in “Bleak House.” Both have the effect of sapping time, money, energy and the will to live.
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Tag Archives: Charles Dickens
DoJ’s Dickensian Assault on Justice
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Read for Fun, Not for the Test
Constant testing is sapping the joy out of reading. It’s also counterproductive as readers learn the most when they find reading fun.
Anti-Vaxxers, Today’s Modest Proposers
Satirist Alexandra Petri channels Dickens and Swift as she goes after Florida for not backing away from childhood vaccines.
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Thoughts on Teaching as School Begins
The despairing teacher in this Vernon Scannell poems needs to focus on his students, not on himself.
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No, A.I. Will Not Change How We Read Lit
Will A.I. change how people read lit, as this New Yorker article claims? Uh, no.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged artificial intelligence, Bleak House, Bluesky, David Copperfield, Joshua Rothman, Philip Pullman, Richard Hugo, Tobias Smollett, Tobias Wilson-Bates Comments closed
Trump’s Pecksniffian Trans Ban
Trump’s executive order banning trans from the military has been described as Pecksniffian, an allusion to the villain in Dickens’s “Martin Chuzzlewit.”
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Pickwickian Anger at Dems’ Surrender
As I watch Democrats surrendering to Trump in advance, I am as appalled as Mr. Pickwick is when he watches his lawyer praise opposing counsel.
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Jo, Nell, Tiny Tim Needed Vaccines
Victorian lit is filled with scenes of children dying of diseases we now have cures for. Does Trumpism want to go back to those days?
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Birds' Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Charlotte Bronte, Christmas Carol, disease, Jane Eyre, Jay Battacharya, Kate Wiggins, Mehmet Oz, Old Curiosity Shop, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Comments closed