I'm about finished with Bleak House. Why? The Brahmins in American Tongues told me to read it.
BRAHMINS:.
What else have they got to live for? Sex, probably. Well, undoubtedly sex, they keep that very quiet. But, I know you don’t like Dickens.
BRAHMIN #2:
No, I don’t like Dickens. Yes, he’s post-Austen. Jane Austen, of course, is the greatest novelist in the English language..
BRAHMIN #1:
Well, she’s a great novelist, but not the greatest.
BRAHMIN #2:
I’m a Dickens man.
BRAHMIN #1:
Well, Dickens is messy, George.
BRAHMIN #2:
Of course he’s messy, but he’s lively.
BRAHMIN #1:
He only wrote one great book which is Pickwick Papers.
BRAHMIN #1:
I would put that way down compared to Bleak House.
