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Dominika
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the notion of pip's ageing is so confusing, you can really feel the original serialised form of the story in between the individual chapters. how exciting it would have been to read them on a regular basis and to have to wait for their releases!! (at this point, pip "comes of age" / turns 21)
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Dominika
is on page 101 of 462
"what i wanted, who can say? how can i say, when i never knew?"
— Sep 25, 2026 06:32AM
Dominika
is on page 100 of 462
"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."
— Sep 25, 2026 06:31AM
Dominika
is on page 92 of 462
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 it is funny to conceive of it as the representation of pip's perception, otherwise 💀 and it's not even about it being outdated, it's really just so freakishly reductive it's funny but also not
— Sep 25, 2026 05:39AM
Dominika
is on page 86 of 462
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.
— Sep 25, 2026 05:26AM
Dominika
is on page 60 of 462
have i successfully gaslit myself into enjoying this or am i but at the moment of departure, the curious tingle of the unknown illuminating my present moment; a few words to come? oh boy, pip realises he is poor and is ashamed for it. the great expectations ship has sailed
— Sep 24, 2026 03:22AM
Dominika
is on page 13 of 462
here we go again, second attempt at this mammoth of a volume
— Sep 23, 2026 01:47AM