"A Solemn and an Awful Thing": Dining with Americans Sickens Dickens
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To the distinction between dining and merely feeding no one was more alive than Charles Dickens. For him, any refreshment to be gotten from a meal was merely incidental. The true importance of dinner lay not in the dishes that laden the table but in the fellowship to be had around it.
"A Solemn and an Awful Thing": Dining with Americans Sickens Dickens
"A Solemn and an Awful Thing": Dining with…
"A Solemn and an Awful Thing": Dining with Americans Sickens Dickens
To the distinction between dining and merely feeding no one was more alive than Charles Dickens. For him, any refreshment to be gotten from a meal was merely incidental. The true importance of dinner lay not in the dishes that laden the table but in the fellowship to be had around it.