Piacer e popone       
Vuol la sua stagione.
– Italian Proverb

‘Pleasure and melons / Want the same weather.’

Excerpt From
Middlemarch
George Eliot
#middlemarch #georgeEliot #bookstodon

* this is so fun.. :)

“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, ‘Oh, nothing!’ Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts – not to hurt others.”

Excerpt From
Middlemarch
George Eliot
#middlemarch #georgeEliot #bookstodon

“…what believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.”

Excerpt From
Middlemarch
George Eliot
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“…what she had to say could wait, and came from her always with the same quiet, staccato evenness. When people talked with energy and emphasis she watched their faces and features merely. She never could understand how well-bred persons consented to sing and open their mouths in the ridiculous manner requisite for that vocal exercise.”

Excerpt From
Middlemarch
George Eliot #Bookstodon #middlemarch #georgeEliot

“…but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

Excerpt From
Middlemarch
George Eliot
#middlemarch #georgeEliot #bookstodon

"...as free from interruption as a plan for threading the stars together."

#Middlemarch

Gog and Magog

"In the Syriac Alexander Legend dating to 629–630, Gog (Syriac: ܓܘܓ, gwg) and Magog (Syriac: ܡܓܘܓܵ, mgwg) appear as kings of Hunnish nations] Written by a #Christian based in #Mesopotamia, the Legend is considered the first work to connect the Gates with the idea that Gog and Magog are destined to play a role in the #apocalypse"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog

#Middlemarch #GeorgeEliot #language #SyriacAramaic

Antoine Lavoisier "pushed for public education in the sciences. He founded two organizations, Lycée and Musée des Arts et Métiers, which were created to serve as educational tools for the public. Funded by the wealthy and noble, the #Lycée regularly taught courses to the public beginning in 1793."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Lavoisier

#Middlemarch #bookstodon #education #science #GeorgeEliot

galligaskins - Loosely fitting hose or breeches worn in the 1500s and 1600s.

#wotd #Middlemarch #bookstodon

energumen - person possessed by or as if by an evil spirit : DEMONIAC

#wotd #middlemarch #bookstodon

truckle

intransitive #verb

to act in a subservient manner : SUBMIT

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truckle

#Middlemarch #wotd

Lalla Rookh

"...by Irish poet Thomas Moore, published in 1817. The title is taken from the name of the heroine of the frame tale, the (fictional) daughter of the 17th-century Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. The work consists of four narrative poems with the connecting tale in prose."

The name Lalla Rookh or Lala-Rukh (#Persian: لاله رخ laleh rox/rukh) is an endearment frequently used in Persian #poetry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalla_Rookh

#Middlemarch

Marie François Xavier #Bichat... a French anatomist and pathologist, known as the father of modern #histology. Although he worked without a microscope, Bichat distinguished 21 types of elementary tissues from which the organs of the #humanbody are composed. He was also "the first to propose that tissue is a central element in #humananatomy, and he considered organs as collections of often disparate tissues, rather than as entities in themselves"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Bichat

#Middlemarch #Lydgate

What is your damage Casaubon?

#InsultAFictionalCharacter
#HashtagGames
#GeorgeEliot
#Middlemarch

3 good things. #3GoodThings
1. Breakfast with friends #social
2. Stopped work because I felt just wrecked but found it wasn’t too difficult to run a vacuum and steam mop so the house is now much nicer. #maintenance
3. Donated 4 books to the #LittleFreeLibrary. May someone enjoy #Middlemarch more than I did. #reading #sharing
Feeling somewhat lousy so hoping it’s from getting up at 3 am rather than germs…. Hope everyone has 30 good things today! @3goodthings

Am I reviewing a almost thirty-year old BBC serial based on a victorian novel? Yes, yes I am.

The BBC's Middlemarch is bad. There. It has a really good start and it's nice to see all the characters do their little bits, but WOW did they mangle the pacing and the ending.

At least I didn't spend money on watching it (thank you britbox free trial), but I am somewhat upset at the seven hours I sunk into it.

#BBC #Middlemarch #BritBox

Feeling bad for Mr. Farebrother. #Middlemarch

Still reading Middlemarch (less than 100 pages to go!) and have to chuckle how Dorothea’s situation is portrayed as slightly tragic. Honey, you married an old rich guy who died within eight months and you inherited a giant estate, you’re beyond moral reproach of anyone you socialize with, you WON.
#Books #Middlemarch

hat jmd george eliot #middlemarch gelesen? traue mich nicht an den ziegelstein, brauche motivation.

I was skeptical before reading it, but I just finished #middlemarch and hot damn, it’s amazing.