MISS DERMARK'S LITERARY RAMBLES

Not long ago, I watched a Karambolage episode on YouTube that taught me a lot more on a character I had only hitherto seen on social media. ...

Les Misérables is the Great French Novel - I would also say Gargantua and Pantagruel fits the bill, but that one is a pentalogy saga, and L...

 À LA SHMOOP ... the cramp of hope does tear: First off we've got hope, compared to a cramp, ...  Notice how the metaphor fits the feeli...

So many Brits have said "my home is my castle" that it has gone from idiom to cliché. But the Wemmicks in Dickens' Great Expec...

  Chamber of Secrets has a lot in common with Phantom of the Opera: The villain's lair is deep under ground and contains a lot of water...

Translation [Purpose] Against a dwarf ( dwarf-fever, fever caused by dwarf possession ): [Instructions] Take 7 little sacramental wafers ( h...