Mark Dorset: In Reservations Recommended, the third volume of the Personal History, Kraft has Peter say this about Matthew Barber: He has a theory that most of us are in disguise much of the time, a theory not original with him . . .
I just started reading “The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens” by Jenny Hartley. He enjoyed inventing joke sign- offs: ‘The Mask’, ‘Victoria’, ‘Anti Pusey’, ‘The Congreve of the 19th Century’, ‘Dick the Doomed’, ‘Philo Forecastle’, and Pitchcock,Swabber, Trillington, & Dawberry’. Hartley writes that “Each one of Dickens’s letters is a performance, finely calibrated to the nature of its recipient, as if he were talking to him or her.”
I just started reading “The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens” by Jenny Hartley. He enjoyed inventing joke sign- offs: ‘The Mask’, ‘Victoria’, ‘Anti Pusey’, ‘The Congreve of the 19th Century’, ‘Dick the Doomed’, ‘Philo Forecastle’, and Pitchcock,Swabber, Trillington, & Dawberry’. Hartley writes that “Each one of Dickens’s letters is a performance, finely calibrated to the nature of its recipient, as if he were talking to him or her.”