“ Mr Curdle had written a pamphlet of sixty-four pages, post octavo, on the character of the Nurse’s deceased husband in Romeo and Juliet, with an inquiry whether he really had been a ‘merry man’ in his lifetime, or whether it was merely his widow’s affectionate partiality that induced her to so report him. He had likewise proved, that by altering the received mode of punctuation, any one of Shakespeare’s plays could be made quite different, and the sense completely changed; it is, needless to say, therefore, that he was a great critic, and a very profound and most original thinker.
Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
And people wonder why I bother to read Dickens.
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