From On the Contrary: Articles of Belief, 1946 - 1961, by Mary McCarthy
HOW
"How a man can become a monster or a mechanical marvel is the question that preoccupies Dickens throughout the whole of his work. And these mechanical marvels he shows us are not travesties of men invented by a satirical author; they are appallingly true to life. Mr. Dorrit, Pecksniff, Uriah Heep -- these are the travesties man has made of himself."
From Recalled to Life, or, Charles Dickens at the Bar
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