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Day/Page/Sketch #66
Close to closing chapter 8, our hero has one of the saddest, most miserable days of his short life, with many-many more to follow.
Day/Page/Sketch #65
Falling in love is mainly a Western concept of moving from a feeling of neutrality towards a person to one of love. The use of the term “fall” implies that the process is in some way inevitable, uncontrollable, risky, irreversible, and that it puts the lover in a state of vulnerability, in the same way the word “fall” is used in the phrase “to fall ill” or “to fall into a trap”. The term is generally used to describe an (eventual) love that is strong.
Day/Page/Sketch #64
“In the little world where children have their existence, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”
Day/Page/Sketch #63
In Dickens’ time, and earlier, beer was drank to quench thirst, not water from a well. Tea and coffee were too expensive. Children were served a thin brew.
Day/Page/Sketch #62
I was inspired by the way Dickens renders Miss Havisham on this page, as a spectral figure from the darkness that would turn to dust under sunlight.
Day/Page/Sketch #61
Stella (star) is a name that became immensely popular thanks to Great Expectations. There were hardly any references of that name before 1861.
Day/Page/Sketch #60
In this page Pip discovers all the clocks in Satis house are intentionally stopped at 8:40 AM, the exact time when Miss Havisham’s heart broke.
Day/Page/Sketch #59
Miss Havisham makes her presence on the book in this page for the first time. What and entrance!
Day/Page/Sketch #58
The name Satis House comes from the Latin satis for ‘enough’. It’s the name of a real mansion in England, which gained its name from a comment by Queen Elizabeth I who stayed there as a guest. As she left, the queen was asked if she had been comfortable during her stay. “Satis”, she answered.
Day/Page/Sketch #57
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Day/Page/Sketch #56
A mug of tea and a sack of peas, and then off to Miss Havisham’s for the first time! I’m savoring this.