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Old 09-14-2020, 02:55 PM   #9481 (permalink)
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5. What do you think the role of government should be?
All praise due obviously but I'd rather go with a later one when Watterson was really doing those gorgeous Sunday strips.
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I just grabbed the first one I saw. Agreed though.
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Old 09-15-2020, 08:57 AM   #9483 (permalink)
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George Eliot's Middlemarch lol. I'm obviously not going to shut up about that damn book either here or on discord
Marie, I haven't read the book unfortunately (even though it's on my shelves in Vol. #46 of Encyclopedia Brittanica's Great Books collection!) - but have you seen the BBC dramatization? I thought it was excellent.
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Old 09-15-2020, 09:14 AM   #9484 (permalink)
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No I haven't, thanks for the rec! I love me some BBC victorian novel adaptations so I'll see if I can find this
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It's well worth seeing, imho. And I'm determined to read the book one day - may take me eons to do so!
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Part of the lyrics to How Soon Is Now were taken from Middlemarch.
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Old 09-15-2020, 10:13 AM   #9487 (permalink)
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Really?? Never recognised it, which lines?
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"I am the son and heir, of nothing in particular."
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Old 09-15-2020, 10:35 AM   #9489 (permalink)
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cool! very beautiful line too
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I didn't know that, either! Good catch, rostasi.

"To be born the son of a Middlemarch manufacturer, and inevitable heir to nothing in particular." - George Eliot

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Morrissey had a flair for opening lines. With “I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar, I am the son and heir of nothing in particular”, he manages to be at once autobiographical and universal, direct and poetic, combining a delectable Oscar Wilde-esque turn of phrase (“criminally vulgar”) with a reference to George Eliot’s great Victorian novel Middlemarch (“To be born the son of a Middlemarch manufacturer, and inevitable heir to nothing in particular”). Rarely has crippling social anxiety sounded so charming.
Middlemarch/Manchester?

https://ig.ft.com/life-of-a-song/how-soon-is-now.html
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