Episode 84: Silas Marner by George Eliot, Ch. 4-9
On today\u2019s episode of The Literary Life podcast, Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins and Thomas Banks continue their discussion of George Eliot\u2019s Silas Marner, covering chapters 4-9. They talk about the problems facing the Cass family and their tense relationships, examine George Eliot\u2019s treatment of Silas Marner\u2019s victim-hood, reflect on the changing times of the Victorian period, and Thomas breaks out his \u201cCheers\u201d accent.
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Commonplace Quotes:Perhaps the first thing that he can learn from the artist is that the only way of \u201cmastering\u201d one\u2019s material is to abandon the whole conception of mastery and to co-operate with it in love: whosoever will be a lord of life, let him be its servant.
Dorothy Sayers
You said that we owe literature almost everything we are and what we have been. If books disappear, history will disappear, and human beings will also disappear. I am sure you are right. Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of transcendence. Some people think of reading only as a kind of escape: an escape from the \u201creal\u201d everyday world to an imaginary world, the world of books. Books are much more. They are way of being more fully human.
Susan Sontag
CradlesongJust because a man is going to be hanged tomorrow it does not necessarily follow that he has anything interesting to say about it.
Desmond MacCarthy
by William Blake
Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,
Dreaming in the joys of night;
Sleep, sleep; in thy sleep
Little sorrows sit and weep.
Sweet babe, in thy face
Soft desires I can trace,
Secret joys and secret smiles,
Little pretty infant wiles.
As thy softest limbs I feel
Smiles as of the morning steal
O\u2019er thy cheek, and o\u2019er thy breast
Where thy little heart doth rest.
O the cunning wiles that creep
In thy little heart asleep!
When thy little heart doth wake,
Then the dreadful night shall break.
The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers
Criticism by Desmond MacCarthy
Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge
Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
The Aeneid by Virgil
Emma by Jane Austen
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