Great Expectations - by Charles Dickens. From the immortal pen of Charles Dickens "My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip."  Thus begins "Great Expectations." Uploaded with permission of Bob Hicks (pdcbob@aol.com) of America Online's PDA Forum.