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...Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens introduces "an elderly pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man . . . who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment." That caricature of the desiccated plant-eater still pervades the English-speaking world. The very language is meaty with bias. Imagine a Beaneater martini, a fatted kale, a yam actor, a string of Turnip 'n' Brew restaurants...
...Praying. Hotels that cater to the area's unfortunates are keeping their doors locked 24 hours a day. A sign at the Pickwick Hotel advises, NO VISITERS ALLOWED NO MORE. At the mission, Jack McCarty, 50, shuddered: "A lot of the guys are sticking around here even during the day, talking about him all the time." Says the mission chaplain, George Caywood: "Everybody is looking at everybody else. We're all praying the Lord will help the police. These men are our friends. It really grieves us to see them so frightened." But no one could offer them...
...stood between the donkey and the sun [Dombey and Son]...I turned in a full circle. My rich young and handsome friends had disappeared. Changed. In their places were cardboard cutouts. I picked the thick paper men up [Pickwick Papers...
...intellectual and social and spiritual life of the place. I have also read with only a little amusement a journal entry written by a girl in my nineteenth century novel course in which she compared herself and her undergraduate friends with the prisoners in the Fleet Street Jail in Pickwick Papers, sitting on the stairs "the greater part because they were restless and uncomfortable and not possessed of exactly knowing what to do with themselves...
...unknown, we overlooked that. Of course, Harvard is a passageway. Every place is. But it is also a stopping place. Dietrich Bonhoeffer spent a little more than half the equivalent of an undergraduate four year term in a Nazi prison before he was murdered. Unlike the fictitious prisoners in Pickwick Papers, his experience taught him the value of time: "As time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable, the thought of any lost time troubles us whenever we look back. Time lost is time in which we have failed to live a full...