Sunday, December 28, 2008

Jarndyce versus Jarndyce.

After recently mentioning the 'circumlocution office', I thought that this a good point to raise the issue of the great legal case in Dickens' 'Bleak House'.
The overwhelmingly brilliant 'Jarndyce v Jarndyce' is the utterly nonsensical case in Chancery which is a dominant thread throughout this lengthy volume. It ruins lives, eats fortunes, is beyond pointless and feeds the pockets of lawyers.
I really think that Dickens was born into the wrong century.

SHAMEFUL!

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