Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Why, lord? Why?

The NYT:

Just before the collapse of his childhood fortunes, Charles Dickens lived with his family in Ordnance Terrace in the shipbuilding town of Chatham, east of London. His boyhood was bordered, to the north, by the Medway River and the dockyards, but to the south and east the town quickly turned into open country. Those years, between the ages of 5 and 10, were among the happiest in Dickens's life. And so it has seemed fitting to the South East Development Agency to pay tribute to the role that Chatham (and nearby Rochester) played in Dickens's life by creating "Dickens World," an entertainment complex including rides with a Dickens theme on the site of the former naval docks. Construction will begin soon, and the opening is scheduled for 2007.

I just don't ... there isn't ... you can't think ... I mean, WHAT?!