"We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me." -Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Dickens captures the fundamental themes with passages that are simultaneously sad and funny. It's a bizarre experience to be reading and suddenly find yourself laughing with a sob catching in your throat. He takes what makes us human and captures it with language. It's what made me choose the title for this blog (which is borrowed from a Melissa Bank novel, but aptly describes so many passages in Dickens). I'm not sure if pulling one of the B, F, S & T passages and posting it would do it justice. Dickens builds to his moments. Losing the context would present you with a pretty, eloquent pair of lines, like above, but you wouldn't have the emotional commitment to the moment like you would if you were reading the novel.
I'll try to find more examples of what I'm talking about. But again, this might not be the medium for it.
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