I've been feeling paralyzed trying to organize my thoughts on George Eliot, because I keep thinking, "How will this fit into the whole dissertation?" and then I veer off into bland and general conjectures. I have to remember that it doesn't have to fit into the dissertation because there is no dissertation yet. The direction the dissertation takes will have to do with what I learn by writing this chapter. So I've plunged in.
Quote of the day from Middlemarch:
"I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it. Everything here I can do as well as any one else could; perhaps better than some."(Said by Mary Garth, chapter 14, when asked why she left off being a teacher and took up employment as the companion to a grumpy old invalid.)
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