Tom McCarthy
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2 Aug
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Yeah.
And I mean, the very first proposition, because the ethics is actually just a set of propositions and sub-propositions.
Proposition one
kind of presents understanding in terms of rays of sunlight falling on water.
And again, Eliot uses exactly this image to describe Will Ladislaw's smile.
She says it's like the breaking of sunshine on the water.
And the book is also full of conceits built around
So, for example, when a minor character misses, the ghastly Miss Cadwallader is trying to kind of... I quite like it.
Yeah, right?
Wow, yeah, that doesn't narrow it down.
But she's a kind of busybody.
Yeah.
And she's trying to matchmake for Dorothea.
And Eliot writes, "'Even with a microscope directed onto a water drop, "'we find ourselves making interpretations "'which turn out to be rather coarse.'
for whereas under a weak lens you may seem to see a creature exhibiting an active veracity into which other smaller creatures actively play as if they were so many animated tax pennies , a stronger lens reveals to you certain tiniest hairlets which make vortices for these victims while the swallower waits passively at his receipt of custom.
In this way, metaphorically speaking, a strong lens applied to Mrs Cadwallader's matchmaking will show a play of minute causes producing what may be called thought and speech vortices,
to bring her the sort of food she needed.
So we've got the lens concede and the all-pervasive substance concede.
Yes, or theology in a metaphysical sense.
Or beyond the universe, forget the British Empire, the whole Spinoza universe.
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