You don’t see unattractive women driving around in Maseratis.
Anyway, I finished A Tale of Two Cities, and having enjoyed that read, I decided to return it to the library and pick up another novel set in Britain.
(Un?)Fortunately, I found George Eliot’s Middlemarch—all 838 pages of it. I picked it up off the shelf thinking, “Who does this guy think he is?” And then (to my horror), I read About the Author, and found out this imposter is actually a woman…literally. But I digress.
Eliot’s novel is widely considered one of the greatest ever written, but I—even before reading it—beg to differ. Dickens pulled off A Tale in 390 pages; that windbag Dostoevsky managed to keep his Crime and Punishment under 500. The SparkNotes for Middlemarch are probably as long as the first two installments of the Lord of the Rings. Yet, I will give it a shot.
Seriously though, this will be the biggest book I’ve ever looked at that isn’t giving me the definition of “loquacious”.
More importantly, my German friends Nora and Marie are coming to visit. I expect them Wednesday night, and I expect schnitzel Thursday morning. Another German joke would have involved sauerkraut, but I am going to go find Hyde Park.
3 comments:
i hope you find Hyde Park, it's pretty close to The U of C. Barak Obama used to call it home, perhaps you've heard of him?
Keenan: not to worry---I decided to try to struggle through James Joyce's Ulysses again and needed a guide. Not only long but a virtual "spillage" of thoughts from the characters in the novel as they roam Dublin. Stay in London as the authors there are not as confusing--maybe because they likely were sober when they wrote. Dad
sounds like you are having a good time and getting edumacated as well. really proud of you bro. looks like we will be shooting for the second week of may to come over for a week or so. would you be free to come travel with us to some or all of the following: paris, dublin, around ireland, then wrap it up in amsterdam. probally two or three days in london and two three days in the aforemnetioned. let me know what dates will work well for you. SOO PROUD OF YOU BRO!
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