What I Liked This Week:
This quote about the lawyer, Tulkinghorn, who's been really aggravating the group reading along:
"Has he so little pity of compunction?"
"He has none, and no anger. He is indifferent to everything but his calling. His calling is the acquisition of secrets, and the holding possession of such power as they give him, with no sharer or opponent in it."
Tulkinghorn was played to perfection in the 2005 BBC production of "Bleak House." Doesn't this guy look just as cold as that description?
What I Didn't Like This Week:
Yes there was another new character this week but now that I've gotten to the point in this book where things are finally starting to happen, I was frustrated to find a long bit that didn't seem to progress the story at all. Couldn't Dickens have just said "and Caddy lived happily ever after?"
I remember reading that women would apply some sort of wax to their faces to cover the pox scars. They couldn't sit too close to a fire or their wax would melt -- and I think this is the origin of some old saying or another.
ReplyDeleteIsn't the beauty of Dickens in those details? :-)
I am loving watching Bleak House along with my reading of it. You're so far ahead of me....I'll never catch up!!!
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