Jonty Claypole

Because you've used the word a few times and it comes up in the book.

And I can see how by the 19th century, this has become increasingly bureaucratic.

An element of corruption has come into it.

But Dickens is so incensed by this.

And it does feel like a pivot that Dickens, who in earlier books has turned his turned his moral outrage on on the poor laws, on the workhouses.

on the economic crisis, on starvation in England, vital issues which are to do with day-to-day survival of human beings.

He's suddenly in this book, and it's his longest book, focuses his wrath on the quarter of Chancery.

And why is he so incensed about it?

Brett, thank you so much.

You're starting to make sense for me about what this course of chancery is.

And I'm just going to read the passage where John Dice and John Dice is introduced.

So this is the case at the heart of the novel from which so many of the characters are connected, as we will find out over the course of the book.

So John

Dickens has brought us into the course of Chancery and the case that's in hand is this ancient case, Jarndyce and Jarndyce.

Here's what Dickens writes.

Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on.

This scarecrow of a suit has in course of time become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means.

The parties to it understand at least.

But it has been observed that no two chancellery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises.

Innumerable children have been born into the cause.