Thursday, August 15, 2013
Charles Dickens' David Copperfield - Mr. Dick's World of Enchantment and the Internet
When Miss Betsey Trotwood encounters what seems to her to be deep human problems that need to be solved, to Mr. Dick they are but simple events which need simple answers.
‘how can you pretend to be wool-gathering, Dick when you are as sharp as a surgeon’s lancet? Now, here you see young David Copperfield, and the question I put to you is, what shall I do with him?’ Of course, this is a momentous occasion for David, a matter of survival—a moral problem.
Under pressure to give a sound answer, Mr. Dick replies, ‘I should—I should wash him!’
Indeed, Mr. Dick wasn't so way off in saying that to diffuse his words by wind and circumstance, he had to take his chances. A writer who doesn't have faith that centuries later his writings (words) will not come down on future generations, isn't a true writer.
Perhaps in the 21st Century we are living in a cyber dimension that that French philosopher Braudillard called Simulacra.
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