I downloaded the first chapters of A Tale of Two Cities. Most interesting. It is like a little bit of time travel.

In a sense, Dickens was doing what we are now, publishing popular trash in an out of control medium, with no adult supervision. Likely that is why it was good. Adult supervision always favors the dull and predictable. It is the counter culture which produces art, the adult culture produces sanitized copies of the last generation's art.

mk