More specifically concerning: george eliot
Citation (2)
3 November 2002, around 16.13.
playing sortes virgilianae with Middlemarch…
obsolescence
22 June 2003, around 8.59.
The truth is, unless a man can get the prestige and income of a Don and write donnish books, it’s hardly worth while for him to make a Greek and Latin machine of himself and be able to spin you out pages of the Greek dramatists at any verse you’ll give him as a cue. […]
Citation (13)
17 November 2003, around 17.28.
notions and scruples.
lost illusions
20 August 2005, around 17.10.
& gout
the foyer inside
27 September 2021, around 7.00.
This a juxtaposition of two quotations about interior architectures, from Henry James and George Eliot.
27.iii.2022
27 March 2022, around 13.55.
‘Nothing whatever, except a harsh and dismal superstition, prohibits enjoyment.’ —Spinoza, Ethics, pt.IV, Prop. 45, Schol. 2 (trans. George Eliot)