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Originally Posted by Victoria
It’s interesting that you find you’ve become more tolerant of sentimentality over the years. They’ve probably helped me be a bit less idealistic than I was in my youth. I guess it’s trite but true that life experience brings us greater balance, in which ever direction we need.[...]
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I never said anything about having come into greater balance.
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Originally Posted by Victoria
Though I didn’t particularly enjoy the book itself, it sparked a bit of exploring in terms of where Dickens was in his own life’s journey, when he wrote it. I was surprised to learn that he and his wife had a difficult and very public break up, after having ten children together. He then had a long term relationship with a younger actress, which he tried to keep private.
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I've always thought the final years for Dickens seemed rather unfair considering what he had tried to do for others.
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Originally Posted by Victoria
It that light, it might have been interesting to see where he was going with the Jasper character. I thought Jasper’s description to Edwin of how mundane and suffocating he found his life had the ring of truth to it. I wonder if Dickens identified with Jasper at all? [...]
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That is an interesting line of thought, though if you are right it might have tested everyone's tolerance for sentimentality before the end.