„made;; 'therefore locked myself in the lavatory several ti-
„mes a day and thus remained for half an hour at a stretch,
„In undisturbed conditions I sat there enjoying Great Expec
tations.
Experience teaches only the teachable, who are by no means
as numerous as Mrs. Micawber's papa's favourite proverb
would lead us to suppose.
A1dous Huxley
Tragedy and the Whole Truth
InsA Book of English Essays
uitg. d. W.E. Y/illiams.
Pelican no A99«
„Grote verwachtingen" koestert men ook in bepaalde Franse
kringen. In Liberation, een sterk links georiënteerd dagblad,
is als stripverhaal verschenens Les grandes esperances,
d'après le. cêlebre roman de Ch. Dickens. Blijkbaar ziet men
iets in een gestript Diekensverhaal
G.K. CHESTERTCN.
In Yarmouth is Chesterton in gesprek geraakt met 'een Dicken-
sian, die.vergeefse pogingen doet de boot van Peggotty te
vinden. Deze man beklaagt zich erover,, dat Yarmouth is bedor
ven door de vele dagjesmensen en de drukte vari een moderne
badplaats. Chesterton vindt dit geen juist standpunt.Hij zegts
„Sir, there are certain writers to when, humanity owes much,
whose talent is yet of so shy or delicate or retrospective a
type that we do well to link it with certain quaint places
or certain perishing associations. It would not be unnatural
to look for the spirit of Horace Y/alpole at Strawberry Hill,
or even for the shade of Thackeray in Old Kensington.But let
us have no antiquarianism about Dickens, for Dickens is not
an antiquity. Dickens looks not backward, but forward, he
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