'....Aye! but I say, isn't Dickens the master of all masters & the genius of all geniuses over his people's names? Who could beat him there? Doesn't the sound and smell & taste & look of "Uriah", just merely as a word, make you think of an open pustule on the nose (or cheek perhaps) of a dead undertaker's wife's underclothes-peddler?'
from a letter dated December 5, 1942 in Letters to Louis Wilkinson 1935-1956 by John Cowper Powys
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