Status Updates From Οι πύργοι του Μπάρτσεστερ

“With such censures I cannot profess that I completely..a poor novelist, when he attempts to rival Dickens or rise above Fitzjeames, commits no fault, though he may be foolish. If we look to our clergymen to be more than men, we shall probably teach ourselves to think that they are less, and can hardly hope to raise the character of the pastor by denying to him the right to entertain the aspirations of a man”

“How he was preparing his thunder for successful rivals, standing like a British peer with his back to the seacoal fire, and his hands in his breeches pockets—how his fine eye was lit up with anger and his forehead gleamed with patriotism—my creative readers may imagine. But was he so engaged? No: history and truth compel me to deny it. He was sitting easily in a lounging chair, conning over a Newmarket list”

Giusto cielo!

La nostra dottrina è che l'autore e il lettore debbano procedere insieme con totale confidenza reciproca.

It's been seven years since I listened to this so I am WELL overdue for a reread