"[I]t comes as no surprise that one of the echoing voices behind these journal entries should be that of Charles Dickens. The administrative world of the Circumlocution Office where the files 'in multiple copies, of official forms, waiting to be processed. . .impede the corridors and every square inch of space. . .[a]nd everyone smiles' can only be escaped by the 'minor copyist at the Ministry of Documents' who gets out of the building at mid-day[.]" Ian Brinton on Martin Anderson • Eyewear

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