Children
Dickens
Dickens noun - A word used in exclamations of confusion.
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- The two kids Kanye West ends his verse with aren't random homeless children, they're Ignorance and Want, two children who serve the same function in the original Dickens novella.
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Boythorn is the poet Walter Savage Landor (after whom Dickens also named one of his children).
Source: Literature / Bleak House - Of all things, the children's book Lamont the Lonely Monster by Dean Walley makes a reference to Dickens: the terrible monster the title character tries to befriend is named Uriah the Heap.
Source: Shout Out / Literature
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