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I know there’s a lot of hypotheses about Tom Bombadil and what he’s doing in this book, and I don’t claim to know much about these, but what I CAN say is that the chapters on the Old Forest and Tom Bombadil remind me SO much of George MacDonald’s Phantastes! The description of the forest, the sinister trees, and even Bombadil and Goldberry’s safe haven between two dangerous places! So it feels oddly fitting

I want to finish this one by the end of the year, we’ll see how I fare 😂 with all the endnotes, I’m around halfway done

I’m just so happy it’s the same narrator who did This is Happiness 🥹

oh my woooooord
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Chapter 17 has left me stunned, wow.

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Mr. Lorry coming in clutch

What’s standing out to me on this reread, is how well Dickens crafts a chapter.

Chapter: April, pages 78-80

Wishing I had bought this, there are so many lovely passages, too long to write in my commonplace book

Just finished the March chapter, and I really liked Niall Williams’ section on time.

Seven pages in and we already have a Wendell Berry reference 🫡