A soupcon of linkspam
Dept of, reviewers clearly don't read:
- Review of The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot in which reviewer describes Fred Vincy as a marginal character. That would be, a marginal character whose trajectory from feckless waiting for something to turn up to responsibility and marriage is a major strand within the novel.
- review of a book about Belgium which invokes the following comparison: 'whose narratorial persona seems to evaporate out of his foggy books like the figure of Krook in Dickens'. I do not think of spontaneous human combustion as an elusive evaporation from the plotline, does anyone else?
Dept of (yet again) Go, Prof Sir Richard Evans!, taking a mighty codslap to the war and diplomacy equivalent of diagnosing guessing what diseases people in history suffered from: Counterfactual history is misguided and outdated.
Dept of, Cultural cringe - going in both directions?:
AS Byatt:
"Ever since I started writing, people have been asserting that the Americans were better - I don't think they were necessarily - the cultural cringe does exist and must be resisted."
Junot Diaz suggests
"Certainly white American writers have the cultural force of their empire behind them," he said, "but more ambition and talent? Please allow me to laugh["]
Dept of, does this sound a bit creepy, even possibly warning bells, to anyone else?
Why does she want to be seen as an old-fashioned wife? "He needs to feel that he is equal to me. If we go out to a party and he asks someone a question, and they reply to me because they assume that he doesn't work, that he's a househusband, that really bothers him.
Could not help being reminded of article I read somewhere during the week about domestic abuse of successful professional women by their less successful husbands.
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