I saw someone online compare having to use Duo to get onto Canvas as having a bouncer at the DMV, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since. Like! What eager masses are you trying to stop from getting in, unauthorized, to my list of papers to grade?!

I can absolutely feel the infinite re-readability this book has in store for me!

(but on a more serious note, now that I'm done - *sob* - I will take recommendations for the best secondary literature about Middlemarch, because I am for SURE never going to be done thinking about this book)

I... don't know what to do with myself now? Read a whole bunch of analysis, I guess

YES, THREAD PLEASE

(we've reached the part where Celia has just had her baby, and everything George Eliot has to say about that baby is funny to me)

It would truly bring me great joy to know I had indirectly subjected students (in another field at a different institution!) to my enthusiasm for making ridiculous memes 😂

thank you!

lol thank you. I feel Eliot really teed this one up for me with the line about how Casaubon didn't "call the future volumes a tomb; he called them the Key to all Mythologies" which made me laugh harder than I have in a while