#madame defarge is ALSO an awful person but at least her actions have due cause

[rillabrooke]

i just finished rereading dr. manette's letter, and i have two thoughts:

1) dickens doesn't know what "abridged" means. in no way was that abridged. my man manette was writing in the dark on a limited supply of scraps of paper with a rusty piece of metal, soot, and his own blood, and managed to scribble out 12 heavily-worded pages (at least in my edition - it could be more).

normally, i'm indifferent to dickens' wordiness, but sir. seriously.

2) i hate the evremonde twins more every time i read this book. odious, insufferable, selfish men. i'm so glad darnay took his mother's name cuz i wouldn't want to be associated with that family either. i get madame defarge. i really do.

#madame defarge is ALSO an awful person but at least her actions have due cause #i am 30 pages from the end and prolonging it cuz i don't want to have a mental breakdown #I've already teared up or straight up cried so many times already and i haven't even gotten to the 'good' parts yet #rilla.txt #a tale of two cities