Thomas Jones
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first heard Aug 2026
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And there's this amazing moment where the only person who Featherstone likes is Mary Garth, the wonderful Mary Garth.
And he says to her the night before he dies, he wants her to burn one of his wills and she just won't do it.
And then it turns out that actually the heir is this man who is actually his son, his natural son, his illegitimate son who comes to inherit it.
and then sells it to Bolstrode.
But that's how this guy Raffles then returns into Bolstrode's life, is through that.
And, of course, codicils to wills, that Cazabon's will also has a very constricting codicil controlling what Dorothea can do after his death.
So, again, these repetitions.
I mean, it's almost like Deleuze and Guattari.
The wife of another vicar.
But that's also in a less sort of cannibalistic way.
I mean, that's also sort of what Eliot's doing in the writing of the book, right?
You look in minute detail at the way this small, insignificant provincial town in England operates.
And you look at it that closely and then you see...
how this works and actually you done scale it up and this is how society works and, and I almost up to the.
know, to the level of the entire British Empire in some ways.
Yeah.
I mean, Rosamund has what my children would call main character syndrome.
But the question of God, I mean, you've talked about the universe, essentially an atheistic universe, which is difficult to write about in the 16th century for Spinoza.
But religion is incredibly important to Middlemarch.
There are all these vicars, and then there are the sort of
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