Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Splash du Jour: Tuesday

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! Something of the awfulness, even of Death itself, is referable to this.
-- Charles Dickens, in A Tale of Two Cities

Today is Charles Dickens’s 194th birthday.
Happy Birthday Chuck!

Have a great Tuesday!

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