@outer@mas.to2026-05-19 14:25:47
Man is quite insane. He would not how to create a mite, and he creates gods by the dozens.
from Essais bk. 2, ch. 12, 1580
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533–1592
#QuoteOfTheDay #Literature #GreatWriting
@outer@mas.to2026-05-19 14:25:47
@paulusm@scholar.social2026-08-01 10:57:34
This was very good, and well worth my sub - deep layers in Middlemarch I had not known about on dialectics and pantheism
Podcast: Tom McCarthy and Thomas Jones · The Man Behind the Curtain: ‘Middlemarch’ by George Eliot #literature #litcrit #eliot