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1. 1)Introduction. All is Mine. This start with Hume and takes one through the theory of pride (again) be show how that theory leads back to the body and consciousness. This is 2000 words drafted by me .
   

2. 2)The Meagles and the Mystery. This essay looks at how the body enables the mind to create little hoops of selfhood. It uses Meagles as its refrain  (who is a character in Little Dorrit, but beyond tht one need not know), and starts with a discussion of Deleuze. It is 6000 words long, and red alert of the drafting!
   

3. 3)Body as Bleeding Heart Yard. This takes one ’set’ of Little Dorrit and attempts to found in it and through Rumour and Inventiveness a space in which the body-mind is somehow special and different to the world. It is 3000 words long, drafted by me.
   

4. 4)Thread Bare Myth. this starts the study of how having a body places one is a relation of debt to the external world and owning to the internal one. One needs to bare the Dorrit family as one reads it though (although it is not necessarily to really know the work). it is 3000 word long, drafted by me.
   

5. 5)Do Not forget. This looks and Mrs Clennam as an example of pure owning who denies any real embodiment of her own (until one is forced upon her). It might be somewhat problematic to those who do not know Little Dorrit. it is 3000 words long and drafted by me.
   

6. 6)The Ghost in the house. This essay looks at house resembling haunts he body in the name of a double other - the other of being a body and that of being caught up in perception. It draws on Kant, Foucault, Deleuze and Dickens equally. It is 4500 and I drafted it.
   

7. 7)Five points of the self This essay looks at the character of Blandios and how he allows one to understand the oddities of being a self.: You will not need much Dickens however to get the point. Apart from the end this is my favourite essay for a very long time, that does not make it any better drafted though and it weighs in at 11000
   

8. 8)The Marshalsea. this is the first of a series of eight studies of the prison. One an directly to the first of the essays of this series by clicking here (it is 15000 words long and drafted by me), or to the index by going here.