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Sorry, but it's been a very long time since I've come across prose that's both hard to digest and yet so tedious. >> "Carlisle lures us back to Eliot’s whole b
by logifail 3y ago
Sorry, but it's been a very long time since I've come across prose that's both hard to digest and yet so tedious.
>> "Carlisle lures us back to Eliot’s whole body of work, even to such unvisited tombs as [..]"
'Unvisited tombs'? Really?
Q: Do people pay to read this stuff?
- alpinisme 3y agoI’ve subscribed to the Point mag before but agree that this article is not a highlight. The quality of prose varies but for a literary and cultural criticism magazine that’s not one of the giants, I think it’s still worth supporting.
- AlbertCory 3y agoA. No, but if it's free I might scan it over.
- imchillyb 3y agoI believe that phrase was supposed to use the word: tomes. Translation and speech to text software both can throw that error. Not catching the misuse in editing could be due to non-native English speaker.
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- wbamberg 3y agoIt is a reference to the closing lines of Middlemarch: "But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
- earthboundkid 3y agoDon’t ruin perfectly good philistinism with your tedious facts. Whoever this Mr Eliot is, we have more important things to do, like fighting about Vim vs Emacs.
- kspacewalk2 3y agoNot sure I've ever seen "unvisited tombs" before, but I had no trouble with the metaphor. Intuitive, not overused, in other words it works.
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