Reading the Chunksters discussion
Buddy Reads
>
Middlemarch - Prelude and Book One
date
newest »
newest »
message 51:
by
Katie
(new)
Oct 11, 2018 05:25AM
"But now I wish her joy of her hair shirt." ----- what?? lol
reply
|
flag
Okay, one more share and I'll stop: "We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others." LOVE THIS!
Katie wrote: ""But now I wish her joy of her hair shirt." ----- what?? lol"A Hair Shirt....“If someone is wearing a hair shirt, they are deliberately making their life unpleasant or uncomfortable, especially because they feel guilty about something.
In ancient times, men would wear a hair shirt, made of course hair, as a sign of repentance to their deity for wrongs they had done.”
In the quote you posted, the hair shirt is a reference to the cross one bears. For Dorothea, that cross would be her marriage to Casaubon. Mrs. Caudwallder, who wants Dorothea to marry Sir Chettam is saying she wishes Dorothea happiness in spite of her decision in marrying the wrong type of man.
I recently read The Ice-Shirt by William T. Vollmann...A completely different genre, but a lot of talk about hair shirts. It was really good...VIKINGS! :)
Katie wrote: "Okay, one more share and I'll stop: "We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in ans..."You post as much as you want, whatever piques your fancy. This narrative is full of aspects that are both meaningful and memorable. You’re adding another layer to the discussion with these quotes. Having read ahead, it’s nice to come back to the previous threads, back to these moments, rooting oneself further into the prose.
Ami wrote: "Katie wrote: "Okay, one more share and I'll stop: "We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the li..."Thank you, I am so behind everyone but hope to catch up. I will have much more time for reading in the next few months, between searching the job market, and hope to be able to join current topics.
I found another marble of wit and knowledge:
"... but pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty."
Elliot loses no time in hiding her disdain for the way women were viewed, she holds nothing back, I love it! " A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it"
Ami wrote: "Katie wrote: ""But now I wish her joy of her hair shirt." ----- what?? lol"A Hair Shirt....“If someone is wearing a hair shirt, they are deliberately making their life unpleasant or uncomfortable..."
thank you! I thought it must mean, i wish her happiness even though she made the choice I wouldn't, but I had never heard the expression before or heard of a "hair shirt" sounds lovely though... NOT
"The superadded circumstance which would evolve the genius had not yet come; the universe had not yet beckoned. Even Caesar's fortune at one time was, but a grand presentiment. We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embryos.—In fact, the world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome dubious eggs called possibilities....He held that reliance to be a mark of genius; and certainly it is no mark to the contrary; genius consisting neither in self-conceit nor in humility, but in a power to make or do, not anything in general, but something in particular. Let him start for the Continent, then, without our pronouncing on his future. Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous."
"But a full-fed fountain will be generous with its waters even in the rain, when they are worse than useless; and a fine fount of admonition is apt to be equally irrepressible."
(for time, like money, is measured by our needs)
