deux ou trois choses, 5 april 2023
I’ve started reading Middlemarch and I’m enamoured with how non-judgemental Eliot is. The circumstances might be constricted but it’s actually all very free.
Perhaps even Hebrew might be necessary—at least the alphabet and a few roots—in order to arrive at the core of things and judge soundly on the social duties of the Christian. And she had not reached that point of renunciation at which she would have been satisfied with having a wise husband; she wished, poor child, to be wise herself.
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