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Waiting for Chuzzlewit
Posted by: annie.leader-biblio (---.server.ntli.net)
Date: April 27, 2004 10:59PM
I've just been re-reading TEA and on page 210 (UK paperback edition)
we have Victor Analogy saying
'Imagine Martin Chuzzlewit without Chuzzlewit!'....'The book would end within a chapter. Can you imagine the other characters sitting around, waiting for a lead character who never appears? It would be like trying to stage Hamlet without the prince!'
*Or Waiting for Godot perhaps?*
Wasn't sure whether to post this on the TEA fforum or here, so apologies to anybody who thinks it's in the wrong place, but I figured it could just about be a possible spoiler to anybody who has read TEA but not WOLP.
Doesn't become particularly significant until one has read the latter anyway.
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Some days I see the point
we have Victor Analogy saying
'Imagine Martin Chuzzlewit without Chuzzlewit!'....'The book would end within a chapter. Can you imagine the other characters sitting around, waiting for a lead character who never appears? It would be like trying to stage Hamlet without the prince!'
*Or Waiting for Godot perhaps?*
Wasn't sure whether to post this on the TEA fforum or here, so apologies to anybody who thinks it's in the wrong place, but I figured it could just about be a possible spoiler to anybody who has read TEA but not WOLP.
Doesn't become particularly significant until one has read the latter anyway.
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Some days I see the point
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