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Dodger, by Terry Pratchett, is a great book for a number of reasons but the one burned in my brain probably atypical.
Sweeney Todd.
The book takes place in a fictionalized victorian London, with a combination of real and fake. One example of this is it's depiction of the character/urban legend Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
He isn't a demon. He isn't an unrepentant murderer.
He's broken.
He was recruited as a surgeon during the Crimean War, and what he saw still haunts him. I don't know enough about mental illness to say what he had, but it was something. And this was an age before medicine, before proper mechanisms for recovery.
So sometimes he would hallucinate, thinking a customer was one of his failed patients, back for vengeance.
Even after he was caught and the contents of his basement revealed the protagonist, Dodger, pitied him.
But it was victorian London, so there was never any hope. If memory serves, it says he was sent to bedlam. The fact bedlam is now a synonym of hellish chaos should tell you how that likely went.
Daily Warmups / Week 6
Dodger / IHasCupquake / Margaret Krohn / Felicia Day
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Chris Evans in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’s table read reunion
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