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Book III

Chapter 1: In Secret, wherein the best-laid plans of Charles Darnay go wrong and absolutely no-one is shocked.

( Who am I supposed to be rooting for, again? )

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For more Dickens, check out the Rant of Two Cities tag. Alternatively, you can start from the beginning.

( The Tale of Five Jacques, and How Not to Treat Mental Illness )

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For more Dickens, check out the Rant of Two Cities tag. Alternatively, you can start from the beginning.

In Chapter 4: Congratulatory, Dr. Manette, Lucie Manette, Mr. Lorry, and Mr. Stryver all stay behind after everyone else has left the courthouse to congratulate Charles Darnay on not getting drawn-and-quartered. Hence the chapter title.

Darnay thanks Stryver for defending him in court, provoking this exchange.

pg. 87: "I have done my best for you, Mr. Darnay; and my best is as good as another man's, I believe."

It clearly being incumbent on someone to say, "Much better," Mr. Lorry said it; perhaps not quite disinterestedly, but with the interested object of squeezing himself back again.

Say what you will, I think Dickens is hilarious.

( Read more... )

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For more Dickens, check out the Rant of Two Cities tag. Alternatively, you can start from the beginning.

WHAT ARE YOU READING?

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. My copy is published by Signet Classics and boasts "8 pages of photographs from the CBS Hall of Fame presentation." Prince Humperdinck is on the cover.

WHY ARE YOU READING THIS?

1.) I quite enjoyed the Wishbone version.

2.) I've also enjoyed many other stories about the French Revolution, including but not limited to the webcomic Bite Me! by Dylan Meconis; Tom Hiddleston's narration of the YA novel The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner; and that one song from The Scarlet Pimpernell, Madame Guillotine.

3.) It was on a shelf at work so I picked it up.

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( A Rant of Two Cities )

( After this, there's only the Chase and the Epilogue. )

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For more adventures in Moby-Dick, check out the Moby-Dick, or The Rant tag. Alternatively, you can start from the beginning.

( Almost to the end, not sure I wanna get there... )

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For more adventures in Moby-Dick, check out the Moby-Dick, or The Rant tag. Alternatively, you can start from the beginning.

The goal here is to finish this book by the end of October. ( The end is so close I can taste it. )

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For more adventures in Moby-Dick, check out the Moby-Dick, or The Rant tag. Alternatively, you can start from the beginning.

Chapter 94: A Squeeze of the Hand is the chapter everyone points out as being incredibly gay, but I disagree because I enjoy being contrary.

( Basically, Ishmael loves sperm. )