She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don’t know what she was—anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her. The Circumlocution Office2022-02-14T00:17:36+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Attraction, Love| Read More
Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape. The Circumlocution Office2020-07-13T22:13:44+01:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Bureauracy, Parliament, Red Tape| Read More
My rescue from this kind of existence I considered quite hopeless, and abandoned, as such, altogether. The Circumlocution Office2021-01-18T12:17:39+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Abandonment, Childhood| Read More
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. The Circumlocution Office2020-04-30T12:30:06+01:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Emotions, Life| Read More
