Points we discussed:
- Dickens as a writer of Victorian Soap Opera
- Women stifled by class structure and mores of the day
- Social Classes in England
- David born with a caul, several had not heard the term before
- No one is happy with the footnotes in the Penguin Classics edition
- Favorite phrases:
- Lifting the curtain on part of his life to write about it, and then letting the curtain drop again
- Micawber's "I have nothing to bestow but advice. Still my advice is so far worth taking, that-in short, that I have never taken it myself. . . "
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