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"Wilkie Collins, a much lesser writer than Dickens" PERIODDDD. Even Sayers agrees that Wilkie is not all that and a bag of chips. I feel so validated right now :)

I find this interesting, as she claims not to be writing "as a Christian" and assumptions that she is are in error. People have at various times assumed I am a Christian or Jew, that perhaps I have some other faith. And that might be because, though I will claim to be "politely agnostic," I am interested in religion and have been since childhood. I am respectful of faith, even while finding some faiths absurd.

Preface wherein Sayers warns that the ability to read the word CAT is not the same as understanding what a cat is, that the confusion of information, opinion, and fact about Christianity ""is transformed in the popular mind to a confused jumble of mythological and pathological absurdity."

As a teacher, I was horrified by the need to teach the difference between fact and opinion.. So I understand her frustration.

This is what I am reading, except I have the Book Club edition with a different cover, and with the Preface, it has over 240 pages.

“Dorothy Sayers says, “the only way of ‘mastering’ one’s material is to abandon the whole concept of mastery and to co-operate with it in love: whosoever will be a lord of life, let him be its servant.””