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unearths some literary gems.
From Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody, by Andrew Lang:
Every fancy which dwells much with the unborn and immortal characters of Fiction must ask itself, Did the persons in contemporary novels never meet? In so little a world their paths must often have crossed, their orbits must have intersected, though we hear nothing about the adventure from the accredited narrators....Most of those delightful sets of old friends, the Dickens and Thackeray people, might well have met, though they belonged to very different worlds.
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