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For my public pensions readers, I have updated my cashflow projection tool based on data from the Public Plan Database. The update was part of something I did for a webcast I did recently: ACTEX eLearning Webinar: Automating with VBA in Excel. If you want...
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As January ends, I say farewell to that angel in gaiters, Mr. Pickwick.
Thing is, Mr. Pickwick himself was not all that important to the story. The villains set against him weren’t all that interesting, really (though Alfred Jingle was okay in small doses). Given the real villains were a pair...
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Was Modernism Meant to Keep the Working Classes Out?
In the 19th century, more working class readers started partaking in contemporary fiction. Modernist literature, however, was specifically not for them.
The first working-class libraries, which originated in Scotland, concentrated on religious books. Some banned fiction outright; into the early nineteenth century,...
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Charles Dickens didn’t start writing with Pickwick Papers — his first published pieces were short “sketches” that ran in newspapers and other periodicals, and then compiled in Sketches by Boz. While I mainly focus on Dickens’s novels, Dickens would continue to write these short pieces throughout his career,...
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