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It comes across as satire to me, which I did not expect after reading TFA.
From the classical references littered throughout the portions I've skimmed, it seems like a learned person is joking about contemporary men that aren't as well educated and unaware of it.
Quite reminiscent of some of the stuff Kierkegaard wrote.
- joshmarlow 2y agoInteresting - I wonder if the author was gesturing at Erewhon which was published a few years earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon
- alabastervlog 2y agoFor those considering them, Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited (wherein we discover just how much in the way of, ahem, relations a book of the period can pack "between the lines") are available in a single widely available and cheap (used) little Modern Library hardback, and are a pretty fun read for the genre (nothing like Utopia—I read a lot of things most folks would consider boring, and that one taxed even my patience).
- stevenwoo 2y agoI recently reread Middlemarch, and this time I had finally read most of the literature and had wikipedia on hand to learn about the historical events that are referenced in it, the breadth and depth of her erudition is impressive, as is her portrayal of human nature (complicated and believable communicated across the divide of culture and time), which is the main thing I took from my first reading.