Tom McCarthy
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2 Aug
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weaving so the fact that the vincees is a textile manufacturer is yeah i mean the whole setting just as twin peaks is a lumber town you know uh middle march is it's a weaving town you've got the the vincees the plymdale company and you know half of the trades people in that in that town are somehow their livelihood is tied in with the dye and fabric industry um there's a very telling scene where walter vincey the mayor and and fabric trader is in
conversation with Bostro, the financier, and he complains that the blue and green dyes that Bostro is peddling are rotting the weaver's silk.
And Bostro answers, he says, well, it's not easy to thread a path for principles in the intricacies of the world.
I stretch my tolerance.
So it's a brilliant piece of writing.
Weaving isn't just
You know, woven fabric isn't just the plot.
It's also a symbol and a metaphorical or kind of rhetorical register.
And in general, this kind of Spinozan continuum linking every part to every other part.
So the brilliant late great critic Frederick Jameson and his book Antimony.
antinomies of realism.
He writes of Eliot, he writes, weaving knows no hierarchy, whatever momentary centers the web may seem to throw up.
So his point is that Eliot's novels have multiple centers.
They develop what he calls the poetics of sheer relationship, right?
There aren't, you know, this has huge implications at the level of
character or individual.
As another critic, S. Paul Brillmer, points out in Middlemarch, Eliot dispels the illusions of the autonomy of character by representing literary characters themselves as relational forms.
So it's not even as though you have a bunch of characters in relation to each other.
The content of each character is relationality.
Yeah, this is very important.
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