Verdi, Dickens... go for the greats, I say. :)

Lots of cultural experiences over the past week, including some classic Doctor Who, (Fourth Doctor, with jelly-babies and scarf) and  the first two Vorkosigan novels.  But as well as those, a couple of the seriously greats:

Last Thursday I was at a performance of Verdi's Requiem.  ( To which I can only say... )

And I'm reading, and marvelling over, the truly breathtaking Bleak House.   It's crammed full of invention -- there's at least three normal Dickens-novels in there (which is to say ten ordinary-writer novels). ( For a start, there's... )