bleak house....

ok, so i once read bleak house because my freshman english seminar guy....said it was the thing to do......and i believed him......and i had a hard time reading the book.....more so than great expectations.....or a christmas carol......or......david copperfield......or any of his other works of literature......bleak house......i may yet have that copy......not engrained to memory...not taken to heart like moby dick......i read that great piece of fiction on whim as well......but the whim of a 4th grader who desires to read aloud a great book.....yep.....i'll take a chance on that...and so we read....andrew and i....for weeks.....until the term leviathan rolled off my tongue.....and i came to see the scene at the boarding house with quiqueg (sp) and his harpoon snagging the steak off the supper table as the epitomy of slapstick humor....and we finished and i thought i was done with epics................and yet there is bleak house...on pbs.....on sunday nights....and i have not watched...mostly because i am watching.....desparate housewives.......a sham of a series if ever there was one.....how sad for charles dickens...to lose market share to such an insipid foe.....................and then there is gillian anderson.....she of the sci-fi genre......who comes back to the screen in this piece....again.....i am so sorry that i need my sleep and do not watch much television after 10:00 pm........i promise i'll catch the dvd version..............