George Eliot hits one whang in the gold
May. 26th, 2005 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanThis is a political comment.
I am rereading Middlemarch, for the first time in some years. In a passage that I recall mostly because of the beetles, I encountered, with a dreadful feeling of extra-literary recognition, the following passage:
"'You will not offend me, you know,' said Mr. Farebrother quite unaffectedly. 'I don't translate my own convenience into other people's duties. I am opposed to Bulstrode in many ways. I don't like the set he belongs to: they are a narrow ignorant set and do more to make their neighbors uncomfortable than to make them better. Their system is a sort of worldly-spiritual cliqueism: they really look on the rest of mankind as a doomed carcass which is to nourish them for heaven.'"
Welcome to George Bush's America.
P.
I am rereading Middlemarch, for the first time in some years. In a passage that I recall mostly because of the beetles, I encountered, with a dreadful feeling of extra-literary recognition, the following passage:
"'You will not offend me, you know,' said Mr. Farebrother quite unaffectedly. 'I don't translate my own convenience into other people's duties. I am opposed to Bulstrode in many ways. I don't like the set he belongs to: they are a narrow ignorant set and do more to make their neighbors uncomfortable than to make them better. Their system is a sort of worldly-spiritual cliqueism: they really look on the rest of mankind as a doomed carcass which is to nourish them for heaven.'"
Welcome to George Bush's America.
P.
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Date: 2005-05-26 07:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-26 07:51 pm (UTC)No, wait, that's not right.
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Date: 2005-05-26 07:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-26 08:09 pm (UTC)To be perfectly honest, I came up with that while struggling with the spelling of the original phrase's completion.
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Date: 2005-05-27 08:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-28 03:38 am (UTC)P.
Oh, dear heaven!
Date: 2005-05-26 07:56 pm (UTC)By the way, I just re-read Tam Lin for the first time in some years, and found it most refreshing.
Re: Oh, dear heaven!
Date: 2005-05-26 08:08 pm (UTC)I'm so glad to hear about your rereading my book. Just don't compare it to Middlemarch, I implore you.
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Date: 2005-05-26 09:03 pm (UTC)i love middlemarch...
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Date: 2005-05-28 03:39 am (UTC)P.
Yet another "yes"
Date: 2005-05-26 09:14 pm (UTC)Nate
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Date: 2005-05-26 10:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-26 11:41 pm (UTC)P.
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Date: 2005-06-07 05:09 pm (UTC)Jackie
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Date: 2005-06-07 06:42 pm (UTC)Really not so bad; I am out of the habit of posting to LJ. Will try to get back in. I am reading just as usual.
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