Atlantic Trivia for March 25, 2026: A Little Dickens
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What nighttime disorder was, until being formalized as a diagnosis in the 1970s, called “Pickwickian syndrome,” after an overweight, underslept Charles Dickens character?
The current name comes from the Greek word apnous.
And by the way, did you know that Dickens’s The Pickwick Papers—a novel released over the course of 1836 in serialized form—was so popular in England that it spawned theatrical performances, joke books, bootlegs, and Pickwick-branded canes, hats, soaps, and cigars?
As was written in The Atlantic in 2015, “‘Literature’ is not a big enough category for Pickwick. It defined its own, a new one that we have learned to call ‘entertainment.’”
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