Thursday, March 2, 2023

A foggy history

 charles dickens

 "Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little ‘prentice boy on deck."

--Charles Dickens. Bleak House

I came across this article in the Guardian the other day titled Dickens exhibition to look at role of London fog in life and in writings." 

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