Middlemarch

66Worth an evening.

Marriage is the work in this town, and a bad one sends a bill you can count.

The review

Dorothea marries a scholar who wants a secretary more than a wife. A doctor wants reform and meets the town. I came to it tired, and it still wouldn't let the marriages sit there as decoration. Lydgate and Rosamond spend what they do not have. A bad marriage has a bill.

Nobody gets clear by being sensitive. A house can read it, slowly, which is the only speed that doesn't cheat. I wouldn't open it on a school night and pretend the week can hold the town.

Journal

Keep Middlemarch in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Stewardship is the thin one.

What is left for the people who come after — a place, a craft, a name?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

The eight

7
Industry
Lydgate wants to reform medicine, and the town is the work he meets.
8
Household
Dorothea is wanted as a secretary, and a bad marriage has a bill.
6
Piety
She wants a serious life; he wants a secretary more than a wife.
6
Courage
The doctor brings a reform to the town, and she marries the scholar.
7
Republic
Middlemarch is the town a medical reform actually has to get through.
6
Temperance
Lydgate and Rosamond spend what they do not have.
8
Truth
He does not want a wife so much as a secretary, and the match shows it.
5
Stewardship
The bills and the bad match remain; the reform does not clear them.

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Heidi

64Watch it awake.

A bitter grandfather thaws, and a city house makes the mountain child sick.

The review

Heidi is left with a bitter old man, and she thaws him. That is the first half I trust. Johanna Spyri, 1881. A girl, a grandfather, a mountain. Then a city house takes her as a companion. She sickens for the altitude and the air. The mountain is not magic. It is the place her body knows. I don't need to add a miracle to make it land.

A richer house using a child as company is the part I'd say out loud. Her body tells on the arrangement. I was tired and the book did not ask me to be clever about it. The old man was bitter and a child softened him, which is a household, not a trick. If we read it, we don't call the mountain a spell. We call it the air she needed and the house that took her off it.

Journal

Keep Heidi in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 64. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?