Re: Best last lines

In article <slrnfu4a19.ksq.dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (David DeLaney) wrote:

> es, they're classics, and reading them can provide a good bit of
enjoyment -
> but much of the reading public would never ever encounter them if it
were not
> that they ARE considered classics, and are pushed on captive high-school
and
> college audiences in English cl*****/courses.

If Dickens more fun to have read than to read. OTOH, I approached them 
in the entirely wrong way, one does have to read them as episodic, and 
delight in character and detail.

-- 
What is done in the heat of battle is (normatively) judged
by different standards than what is leisurely planned in
comfortable conference rooms.