Status Updates From Bleak House

Some of these omniscient narrator passages call for reading aloud in the most stentorian ack-tor voice possible. We overuse the word epic a lot now which leaves us unprepared for the real thing. And I feel that the 1st person narrations from Esther "Dame Durden", in all their self-abnegation, are very much part of the big picture that Dickens was trying to assemble.