Letters to the Editor
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various responses
In response to a few things:
sealed indictments are not part of the public record--Prop Joe had a mole
in agreement with all those who mentioned that anyone who doesn't know/recognize Nick Sobatka does not really know The Wire
While Dickens has aspects/elements of sentimentality, he had a much darker vision of the world than some of the letter writers here give him credit for--you need to actually read his books and especially note the progression of pessimism and and sadness that informs his later novels--So, V. Woolf didn't think much of Dickens, apparently--not a surprise as his writing is so very different--But Dickens is a great novelist
I'm with you, hallo_world--I can't tell you how many Europeans I've met who love to trash the US but completely ignore how their own countries have many racist policies/perspectives--French people are particularly bad in this regard, in my experience.