Sun, 04 May 2025 17:49:51 +0000

At long last, I tackled and finished George Eliot’s “Middlemarch”, switching between audio and paperback over the past several months. What a canvas. Such intelligence. And the prose. The 750 pages are rich with memorable phrases that get inside her characters — one’s “self-cherishing anxiety”; another’s “motiveless levity”; the “reciprocal tolerance” that two have for each other — and paragraphs, like this one that ... https://stephenschenkenberg.com/2025/05/04/at-long-last-i-tackled.html