Thomas Jones
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2 Aug
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but the name of it is Middlemarch.
And why has she chosen, do you think, why did she choose to set the book there, sort of in the middle of Middle England, rather than London or Berlin?
Okay.
And continental philosophy beginning...
I mean, she translated Feuerbach.
And also that way that characters come in and then
Dorothea and Kazapon's wedding or their courtship that's hardly the word for it but their and then they got married and they went off to Rome and then we hear nothing about them for however long afterwards because you know they've we do see them in Rome and we're going to talk about that more later but that
way that characters are yes pulled out of those relationships and then they're gone but a lot of things about character there's this um there's a fair brother who's one of those many vicars this quote thing he says which is that the character is not cut in marble it is not something solid and unalterable it is something living and changing and may become diseased as our bodies do yeah but this idea that yeah yeah well each character is almost like a struggle you know um
One thing, I mean, as a form of speech, you say she is nothing but, but that's, I mean, in a sense, but that is a lot that she is.
Oh, that's everything.
And that's what we all are.
We're not Leibnizian atoms.
No, we are Spinoza.
Yeah, and it happens with the debt, that Fred Fincy has these ultimately not that important debts, then he borrows money from Caleb Garth that he can't repay, and then that repeats itself...
more disastrously for Lydgate when he much later borrows money from Bolstrode.
And you're quite right about Featherstone's will, which I missed from my summary.
But very quickly, there's this horrible, very rich man called Featherstone, who is connected to the Vinci's by marriage.
He, as far as we know, doesn't have any children.
And this question of who's going to inherit.
And one of the reasons that Fred is happy to kind of gamble away at the Green Dragon and so on is because he's expecting to inherit this property.
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