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Golly Dorothea is so like me that her kind of horrible marriage is exactly the kind of horrible marriage that I am terrified of ending up in

If I were such a person as played drinking games, and if I began such a drinking game and took a sip every time Mr. Casaubon did something that made me want to throw something at his head, I would be quite drunk .

This book has as many characters as Endgame and THEY'RE ALL AWFUL except maybe 2.

"Female Alec Baldwin" was not on my Middlemarch Bingo card; what on earth was that

THE INSULTS IN THIS BOOK

"He is as bad as the wrong physic, nasty to take and sure to disagree."
"He has got no good red blood in his body." "No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses."
"Brooke is a very good fellow, but pulpy; he will run into any mould, but he won't keep shape."
"He has one foot in the grave." "He means to draw it out again, I suppose."

Did not expect to be this engrossed already but I guess humans have always been interested in watching someone ignore red flags in favor of stupidly careening towards a cliff