NOIRTRASH
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I'm reading GREAT EXPECTATIONS again. I read it every 5 years or so since the 8th grade. Pip and me were twins separated at birth. All the characters are weird, wretched, or wonderful. Biddy, Mister Wopsle's great aunts niece is the only female in the book not crazy-frustrated-angry. Pip oughta marry her but wastes his life obsessed about the beautiful and broken Estella. Readers demanded Dickens change the end so they marry. The book has 2 endings.
The book is an elegant exposition of how people stay stuck their whole lives and slowly decay. All the clocks at Miss Havisham's home , at the same instant, long ago. The decay is the only change. But the plot and action never get stuck. Almost every scene and interaction advances the plot to the unhappy end, or ends. Pip and Estella aren't happy apart or together.
The book is an elegant exposition of how people stay stuck their whole lives and slowly decay. All the clocks at Miss Havisham's home , at the same instant, long ago. The decay is the only change. But the plot and action never get stuck. Almost every scene and interaction advances the plot to the unhappy end, or ends. Pip and Estella aren't happy apart or together.
