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To: Agnes Heep; Charles Henrickson; cripplecreek

I like your handle.
From whence does it derive?


16 posted on 04/05/2016 5:39:18 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
I like your handle.
From whence does it derive?

From the novel David Copperfield, by Dickens. Agnes Wickfield was the beautiful and accomplished daughter of Mr. Wickfield, a lawyer. His clerk, the utterly loathesome Uriah Heep, inveigled himself into the alcoholic Mr. Wickfield's confidence and gradually gained control over him, always entertaining the thought that he would marry Agnes. Of course this was anathema to David Copperfield, who looked upon Agnes as his "dear sister," and couldn't abide the thought of the dear creature in the embrace of someone he looked upon with such disgust. Unbeknownst to David, Agnes is head-over-heels in love with him, but in the true spirit of Victorian self-abnegation, doesn't make her feelings known. Not until David has foolishly married a useless bimbo, who conveniently dies, and Uriah Heep has been consigned to prison, does David realize that he has loved her all along. In the end David and Agnes get married and have lots and lots of children, which is the Victorian way of saying that they made the two-backed beast a whole bunch of times.

So, to get to the point, "Agnes Heep," is like a sardonic "what if Uriah had prevailed?"

If you haven't read the book and this makes you want to download a copy and peruse it, so much the better! It's a fantastic novel. The part where David professes his love for Agnes will make you cry.

25 posted on 04/05/2016 6:00:46 AM PDT by Agnes Heep (Trump 2016: Statism that WORKS for US!!!)
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