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Charles Dickens was somewhat bipolar (as well as a chronic insomniac) - and in his jubilant phases was extremely exuberant. At one party he was up till 5 in the morning cracking jokes, drinking punch and dancing - he apparently left the house after jumping hop-frog over the other guests.
>Also
Dickens, as a young man, seeing the carriage of young Queen Victoria passing, went on one knee and shouted his proposal to marry her.
>Dickens' rival Thackeray once threw a copy of Dickens' "Dombey and Son" across the room and cried, "There's no writing against such a power as this! One has no chance"
>Dickens met Edgar Allan Poe in America and told him about his pet raven (called Grip). Poe was inspired by the anecdotes told about the bird and proceeded to write a certain poem.

>>10921548
1. Dickens
2. Bach

>>10616039
Yep.

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