Polar Illinois

I'm reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens and found this amusing. As young David approaches the city of Yarmouth with his nurse, he says, "I could not help wondering, if the world were really as round as my geography book said, how any part of it came to be so flat. But I reflected that Yarmouth might be situated at one of the poles, which would account for it."

Both for its enduring flatness and present canvas of snow, Champaign, Illinois might have been the subject of David's musings. I'm not sure how being situated at a pole would account for a place's flatness, but it does provide fuel for the imagination.

More insight from this book should follow, as I recommit myself to this hitherto dormant blog. (More expressions like "hitherto dormant" are coming, also, since I'm reading Charles Dickens, who is masterful beyond description in this book.)