Tag: Dickens
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September 27, 2024
Thanks to Peter Ponzio, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
The forty-fourth annual Dickens Universe was held at the University of California, Santa Cruz during the week of July 21 through the 27th. Each year, one novel is selected to be read and discussed in depth. This year’s selection was the novel Great Expectations. The novel examines the fortunes of Phillip (Pip) Pirrip,
August 14, 2015
“Let Fame, which all hunt after in their Lives,/ Live register’d upon our brazen tombs,/ And so grace us in the disgrace of death:/ when spite of cormorant devouring time/ The endeavour of this present breath may buy/ That honor which shall bate his Scythe’s keen edge/ And make us heirs of all eternity.” — William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, I.i.1-7
What is the difference between ego and pride?