tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post8357509892603758593..comments2024-03-29T08:14:50.315-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Book endNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-48960407401964387942020-08-10T08:59:39.442-05:002020-08-10T08:59:39.442-05:00Your wife’s deadpan non-response — delicious!Your wife’s deadpan non-response — delicious!Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15373960140777556685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-9905775696697300802020-08-09T19:03:32.051-05:002020-08-09T19:03:32.051-05:00The thing that annoys me in the Great Gatsby is th...The thing that annoys me in the Great Gatsby is the frequent referrals to “ash heaps” when he’s really describing garbage dumps. You can’t have a big ash heap outside because ash blows away with the wind.J. Pabsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11566801024154623288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-56214817054936396462020-08-09T16:09:20.524-05:002020-08-09T16:09:20.524-05:00Timing is everything. Timing is everything. Coeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06130250489695215525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-43292402035367847892020-08-09T15:23:50.451-05:002020-08-09T15:23:50.451-05:00Not quite the last sentence, but I've always b...Not quite the last sentence, but I've always been partial to the send off George Eliot (Maryanne Evans) gave her heroine Dorothea Brooks on the final page of "Middlemarch." For what it says about the heritage of good people who live<br />unsung lives.<br /><br />"But the effect of her being on those about her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."<br /><br />Written perhaps in an era when it was possible to believe in "the growing good of the world."<br /><br />TomTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-67384208863724569662020-08-09T12:51:33.960-05:002020-08-09T12:51:33.960-05:00Although I have never been able to properly apprec...Although I have never been able to properly appreciate The Great Gatsby, I like that line and think of it often.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01706666922972227659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-79505502232361820762020-08-09T11:46:09.785-05:002020-08-09T11:46:09.785-05:00A prophet is never appreciated in his own kitchen....A prophet is never appreciated in his own kitchen. Alas.<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-68776900006877382062020-08-09T09:36:29.850-05:002020-08-09T09:36:29.850-05:00funnyfunnyprivatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18413982311699012802noreply@blogger.com