{"id":5120,"date":"2013-10-19T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=5120"},"modified":"2018-02-05T22:31:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T11:31:23","slug":"journey-to-the-centre-great-middle-lines-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=5120","title":{"rendered":"Journey to the centre: Great middle lines – 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the centre of Great Expectations<\/em> is a paragraph about Pip’s love for Estella, about his great expectations to win her heart.\u00a0 Though I’ve read this novel several times, I’d never thought of Dickens as romantic until today when I read this paragraph separately from the rest of the story:<\/p>\n

Far into the night, Miss Havisham’s words, ‘Love her, love her, love her!’ sounded in my ears. I adapted them for my own repetition, and said to my pillow, ‘I love her, I love her, I love her!’ hundreds of times. Then, a burst of gratitude came upon me, that she should be destined for me, once the blacksmith’s boy. Then, I thought if she were, as I feared, by no means rapturously grateful for that destiny yet, when would she begin to be interested in me? When should I awaken the heart within her, that was mute and sleeping now?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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At the centre of Great Expectations is a paragraph about Pip’s love for Estella, about his great expectations to win her heart.\u00a0 Though I’ve read this novel several times, I’d never thought of Dickens as romantic until today when I read this paragraph separately from the rest of the story: Far into the night, Miss … <\/p>\n

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