HARARE – Bleak House starts with a description of a thick fog that has engulfed London. The fog image is then used by Dickens to portray an interminable and ruinous legal case, that of Jarndyce v Jarndyce: “The raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest, and the muddy streets are muddiest. ……
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