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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

Me: I need metaphors to tackle this 900 page book. I'll approach this similar to marathon training; or maybe I'll approach this like a long test innings - one sentence(ball), one page(over), one chapter at a time(session). Okay yes this is working 💪

George Eliot: ".., we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entagled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them"

Me : 😮

Oooo George Eliot I wasn't aware of ur game. Very funny and deeply introspective ; curious to see if this keeps up for the next *checks notes* 852 pages

Im 80 pages into Orgin and it already has me captivated. Given my educational background, it's a shame it took me so long to read this. One of the OG pop science books!!

Yes, Mrs.Dalloway, I enjoy the sound of tapping cricket bats as much as you do

This book is great as a stand alone piece. But what elevates it's greatness is the systematic dunks on the likes of Yuval Harari and Steven Pinker

Always amazes me how much Le Guin packs into ~200 pages books.

I'm convinced Le Guin cannot put a foot wrong