The aged.

If I were to say, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, what, or who would you think of? Pip? A cobwebbed Miss Havisham? Perhaps the marshy, bleak landscape of 19th century England?

But does anyone, I wonder, think of Aged P? Otherwise known as, Aged One, or sometimes simply, The Aged. He was a minor character, the elderly father of Wemmick, another lesser character. He lived in a miniature castle, complete with moat, flag, drawbridge and cannon, all of which was built and lovingly maintained by Wemmick, for the sole purpos…