{Literary Circles [continued (9)]}[29th November 1988]

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Charles Dickens:

(assuming a turn)

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[The text on the ms diagrams reproduced above is too complicated to be summarised in a table at present.]

Having filled this in, I am fairly certain that I should have drawn two Circles of which the second as well as the first was predominantly Outer: that is, there was no significant turn, no Conversion, only a nostalgic recurring vision of Christmas and the loss of children, overlaid by pushing far too hard at all kinds of work. Enough Inner Circle remained, by contra-rotation (shown above), to give rise to a growing uneasiness about the state of Society, as well as blackness and depression and an attempt to re-discover the female side by leaving his wife for a younger woman.*

*cf XII [] :363

**[Conventional wisdom would tend to see a man’s leaving his wife for a younger woman as an attempt to re-discover his maleness. But cf Shakespeare’s late plays, eg Cymbeline, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest.]

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