“Resisting the slow touch of a frozen finger tracing out my spine.”

— Charles Dickens

The Signal-Man http://www.charles-dickens.org/three-ghost-stories-the-signal-man/ebook-page-04.asp (1866)

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English writer and social critic and a Journalist 1812–1870

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