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Tony Bertram · @tonybertram

79 followers · 300 posts · Server ohai.social

@theotherotherone @bookstodon Middlemarch took a month. I know it is great but I can't see me at 72 years of age tackling it again. Edward V11 apparently read it once a year. Kings must have had a lot of time on their hands then. #GeorgeEliot #Middlemarch

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Yvonne Aburrow 🌻 · @vogelbeere

771 followers · 1287 posts · Server nerdculture.de

@tomlevenson @doctorwaffle

I have never for a moment sympathised with Casaubon. He even manages to make mythology dull. And he absolutely crushes Dorothea's youthful idealism and intellectual aspirations.

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Yvonne Aburrow 🌻 · @vogelbeere

771 followers · 1287 posts · Server nerdculture.de

@doctorwaffle I've often thought that #Middlemarch is an extended essay on the theme of WHY DON'T INTELLIGENT MEN WANT TO DATE EQUALLY INTELLIGENT WOMEN. IT'S RIDICULOUS THAT THEY FEEL THREATENED BY THEM.

Casaubon is an idiot because he's scared of Dorothea's intelligence. Lydgate is an idiot because he marries Rosamund who is not his intellectual equal.

Only Ladislaw gets it right because he appreciates Dorothea's mind.

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Kevin Carson · @theheadslines

68 followers · 19 posts · Server mastodon.social

#7books that have been formative: #tintin Prisoners of the Sun by #herge, which set me off loving #comics; Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen, which got me thinking about experience & awful adults; #persuasion by #janeausten, which taught me about love, patience, and longing; #middlemarch by George Eliot, for genius & incredible sentences; #infinitejest by David #fosterwallace, which taught me sincerity is preferable to irony; #waysofseeing by John Berger; #hamlet, obvs. #books #bookstodon