A comic exercise imagining how a teenage John Roberts would interpret various classics.
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Tag Archives: Oliver Twist
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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Responding to the Verdict: Trump & Fagin
How did Trump feel as the verdict was delivered? Perhaps like Fagin in “Oliver Twist.”
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Anti-Vaxxers Ignore the Past
Anti-vaxxers should read 19th century novels, which describe high mortality rates
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The Fearsome Georgia Bulldogs
To honor the world champion Georgia Bulldogs, I compare them to the bulldog (actually, bull terrier) in “Oliver Twist.”
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Indecipherable Texts of a Magic Spell
Murakami’s “1Q84” has a magical passage about the power of literature.
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Biden-Trump Invites Dickens Comparisons
If one thinks of the 2020 election in Dickensian terms, several novels come to mind.
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Lit that Championed Chimney Sweeps
Watching modern chimney sweeps at work, I’m relieved that we’ve left behind the days of William Blake and Charles Dickens.
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