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"...in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat...the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter".
An item of mortality!
Such a telling way to describe a newborn...part of the remarkable opening paragraph in which Dickens adopts the voice of one who--like the society that surrounds Oliver--cannot be concerned with the newborn waif's identity.
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An item of mortality!
Such a telling way to describe a newborn...part of the remarkable opening paragraph in which Dickens adopts the voice of one who--like the society that surrounds Oliver--cannot be concerned with the newborn waif's identity.
