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Old 19-Dec-2008, 03:12
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Default Re: Charles Dickens: Great Expectations

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Originally Posted by Irene Wilde
You see, Titania, this is a review. By comparison, I scribble with my Crayolas and try to stay inside the lines as best I can (which is hardly ever). Very well done.
Irene Wilde, you modest lass you! I appreciate the compliments about my review, but you do yourself a disservice with your denigrating self-assessment.

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And Miss Havisham has always been a character of great tragedy to me. She could no more help who she loved than Pip could. We all plunge ourselves into the thorns hoping to find a rose. How she dealt with it, on the other hand...
I love this sentence: "We all plunge ourselves into the thorns hoping to find a rose."

Very aptly spoken, Ms. Wilde. I suspect that many of us are attracted to the deceptive fragrance of the rose...not knowing that it can oft-times be as deadly a blossom as some of those flowers in Rappuccini's Garden.

Thanks once again for your generous words.

~Titania
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