The True Manipulator Never Has A Reputation

Because We Are All Poets Or Babies In The Middle Of The Night, Struggling With Being.

Dickens Is A Much Misunderstood And Mis-approached Writer, In That He Tends To Be Read, Particularly In The Twentieth Century, As A Social Commentator - Like The Great Victorians, A Realist In His Way. But He Isn't At All Like That. His Genre Is Actually More Like A Fairy Tale - Weird Transformations, Long Voyages From Which People Come Back Altered, Parental Mysteries, Semi-magical Twists.

We All Have Names We Don't Know About.

Tremendous Interest In The Superficial Is Very Characteristic Of Cultures In Decline.

Probably Human Cruelty Is Fixed And Eternal. Only Styles Change.