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Fitzgerald was playing with fire naming the main charachter Dick

Orlando walked so that Orlanda could run

Most relatable part is the frequency with which the gods and heros go crying to their mom at the first sight of trouble, like yes I would do that too

ordering a spear on Amazon rn

Diomedes i was not aware of ur game.

Had chills when "godlike" Diomedes attacks Aphrodite and the goddess cries to her mother "The violent fighting is now no longer Trojans against Greeks. The Greeks are fighting the immortal gods!"

Diomedes I was not aware of ur game

Home boi Achilles is going through it

Ugh..... I really need to find a chill read

Plan to be insufferable by the time the Nolan movie rolls out

Ngl critical race analysis of Mrs dalloway was the last thing I expected in this book 😭😭😭😭

Need to cleanse my palate reading something terrible like Chetan Bhagat or Colleen Hoover; because everything ive been reading off late is incredible

'"Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.” Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.'

Reading this passage in a 21st century novel would have been great; to read this in a 19th century novel has left me spell bound.

i think its beautiful that if a man was sick in the 1850s they poured brandy and opium down his throat and prayed for the best

These last 200 pages have been a fever dream I dont want this to end

Less than a 100 pages left; real dont be sad its over be happy it happened vibes 😭😭😭

RIP Lydgate and Rosamond - The Ramsey Show would have saved your marraige

bro im shaking

It's just truth bomb after truth bomb wrapped in the most beautiful prose

R.I.P Will Ladislaw you would have been prescribed Adderall in middle school

Im baking in the inescapable slow burn of Eliots genius. I did not think i would say this about a 900 page novel - but I'm sad ill soon finish this book and have to part with all the inhabitants of Middlemarch :(

R.I.P Casaubon - you would have enjoyed editing Wikipedia pages

R.I.P Casaubon - you would have enjoyed editing Wikipedia pages

kudos to calvino for writing a 5 page short story that juxtaposed the condensation of the universen with themes of immigration and cooking pasta 🫡🫡

book so goated I needed a new system to highlight quotes