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"what i wanted, who can say? how can i say, when i never knew?"

"it is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. there may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but, that it is a miserable thing, i can testify."

chapter xii: dickens's depiction of women is too much (pip's sister, miss havisham, estella). it is funny to conceive of it as the representation of pip's perception, otherwise 💀 and it's not even about it being outdated, it's really just so freakishly reductive it's funny but also not

chapter xi: so improbable! so many peculiar characters and an unreliable child narrator whose imagination it is tough to extricate from the reality of his story. very funny too.