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BLEAK HOUSE 📚: with Stephen Fry

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

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The Lawsuit of Jarndice Versus Jarndyce

There are all these characters circling around law, and then there is the famous legal case of jarndice versus jarndyce. It's a will, or a series of wills that only the chancery court can consort out. Apparently, and it's been going on for decades and sucking the life out of all the suitors to the case. Just as then, mister crook dies by exploding, spontaneous combustion,. And leaving just a little layr tat or othetorific the description in that entire sequence, isn't it? Yes, it really is amazing. I felt all through the performance that he never looked at the actors, but constantly looked at me

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