Word: middlemarch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dare to go into the shop, unless my father was with me. It was a paradise of glue and pitch, of files and a vise, and heads in the rough, with a smell that still comes gratefully back to me. "God bless me," as Mr. Borthrup Trumbull (in "Middlemarch") remarked of the ham, "what an aroma...
...world or a horrifying one, but a world of fears more perceived than existent (and more internalized than devouring). The camp is a sort of sad paradise, but a paradise just the same. Referring to the play in program notes, the writer chose a quote from George Eliot's Middlemarch...