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Unread 03-31-2012, 05:18 PM
Lance Levens Lance Levens is offline
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Greg

Good literary detective work! He seems to have had mixed emotions about the name. We can safely assume the name was a cliche in Hardy's time, yet it was a cliche that referred to the plight of the farm laborer, to real people. Puzzling, isn't it?

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