Thursday, 5 February 2009

About the name of the the blog

From George Eliot's Middlemarch (which I've been teaching this week):

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.

That
  1. this is the first thing that came into my head
  2. I misquoted
pretty much sums up this week.
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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous5 February 2009 at 11:37

    It's a striking quote, though - and now your blog has to live up to it!

    :-)

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  2. Oliver Mason5 February 2009 at 16:36

    You didn't misquote, you paraphrased!

    ;)

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  3. Tom Davis5 February 2009 at 20:42

    yes, this is Lacan's Real, isn't it? There is a rumour that it is, actually, extremely pleasant.

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