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Comment on David Copperfield - Day 1 of 331 by New Books: Two Classics, Two Recent at Turtle Reader

New Books: Two Classics, Two Recent at Turtle Reader — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:44:20 +0000

[...] Dicken’s Oliver Twist. I just finished David Copperfield (a good [long] read) and felt like some more [...]

Comment on David Copperfield - Day 77 of 331 by ScottS-M

ScottS-M — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:48:24 +0000

About time someone stood up for the kid. Good to see the Murdstones getting thwarted. I guess something else must go wrong for him though.

Comment on David Copperfield - Day 60 of 331 by ScottS-M

ScottS-M — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:32:51 +0000

I had two or three shillings of my week’s money in my pocket … and with heartfelt emotion begged Mrs. Micawber to accept of them as a loan. But that lady, kissing me, and making me put them back in my pocket, replied that she couldn’t think of it.

I was really expecting these people to take advantage of him too. Nice that for once everything didn’t go wrong for him (yet?).

Comment on David Copperfield - Day 47 of 331 by ScottS-M

ScottS-M — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:05:57 +0000

I’m horrible at names so I had to search for “Chillip” (electronic text does have it’s benefits). It turns out Mr. Chillip is the doctor that was present at the delivery at the start of the book.

Comment on David Copperfield - Day 15 of 331 by ScottS-M

ScottS-M — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:25:16 +0000

I had thought his mother was going to be gone or dead or something but now I see I misinterpreted:

It touches me nearly now, although I tell it lightly, to recollect how eager I was to leave my happy home; to think how little I suspected what I did leave for ever.

I thought he was leaving his home for ever but I guess it was the happy home that he would not see again.

Comment on David Copperfield - Day 12 of 331 by ScottS-M

ScottS-M — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:39:41 +0000

Geez that’s pretty cold. I guess there must be some really bad things coming.

Comment on David Copperfield - Day 9 of 331 by ScottS-M

ScottS-M — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:11:33 +0000

She’s giving him up for adoption so she can marry this Murdstone guy?

Comment on David Copperfield - Day 7 of 331 by ScottS-M

ScottS-M — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:42:34 +0000

Doesn’t sound like this fellow is going to turn out to be a good thing.

Comment on David Copperfield - Day 1 of 331 by TurtleReader

TurtleReader — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:11:15 +0000

I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and preferred cork jackets, I don’t know

I had no idea what this was about but luckily Wikipedia had the information:

To be “born in a caul” is to be born with the head covered by the amnion or within an intact unruptured amniotic sac.
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Over the course of European history, a popular legend developed suggesting that possession of a baby’s caul would give its bearer good luck and protect that person from death by drowning. Cauls were therefore highly prized by sailors.