10-10-2012, 10:31 AM
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Nameless Being
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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
I enjoyed David Copperfield.
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You are so right. I always figured that David's infatuation with Dora was something he had to get out of his system as he matured. He was certainly better of with Agnes in every way. I especially like these final [very autobiographical] paragraphs in the book.
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And now, as I close my task, subduing my desire to linger yet, these faces fade away. But one face, shining on me like a Heavenly light by which I see all other objects, is above them and beyond them all. And that remains.
I turn my head, and see it, in its beautiful serenity, beside me. My lamp burns low, and I have written far into the night; but the dear presence, without which I were nothing, bears me company.
O Agnes, O my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!
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