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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

—Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Monday, June 14, 2010

George

"Boy George is a man, isn't he?" said Rachel.
"Yes, he is," said Nick.
"Not like George Eliot."
"No, not at all."
-Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty



I've decided George Eliot is the appropriate thing to read after The Line of Beauty. I'm 135 pages into Middlemarch.
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  1. AnonymousJune 15, 2010 at 1:17 PM

    I totally posted this Hollinghurst bit on my blog! Great minds think alike. Are George Eliot jokes EVER not funny?

    But what I want to know is how is Middlemarch treating you? Aren't there some really powerful and beautiful and helplessly meandering lines in there? I really think I should read The Mill on the Floss this summer...

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