I agree. Today I learned Michaelmas is a christian thing happening on Mon, 29 Sept 2025 and "one legend from the British Isles holds that when St. Michael defeated Satan, he cast Satan into a particularly prickly blackberry bush".

I don't think people these days can be bothered with such nonsense. Though next time I see a blackberry bush I'll think of chucking Satan at it.

And I say that as someone who was forced to do Great Expectations in English Lit. I read the CliffsNotes and passed.

My main memory of the book is Pip was fooled into thinking he'd get off with Estella because he got some money from the convict who went to Oz and thought it was from Miss Havisham in error. And then Dickens spun that out into about a million words because he was basically paid by the word to fill newspaper space. Some of the old stuff wasn't actually that good and there's more competition for entertainment these days.