#like there's a stonemason there who is learning to read and write partially bc a guy he works with can

[lit-in-thy-heart]

two hundred pages of slow action was worth it for this chapter

#george eliot i love you #i have been enjoying the book for the most part #it's just the fact i need to have it read for 9am on monday is making me a little more inclined to skim over certain bits #but i have resisted the urge #anyway she's so fantastic with characterisation like this chapter introduces workmen attending night school #descriptions only are a few sentences but she paints them so vividly #and she's fucking funny too #like there's a stonemason there who is learning to read and write partially bc a guy he works with can #and she literally goes 'what could be done by a little fellow like sam phillips bill considered could be done by himself #seeing that he could pound sam into wet clay if circumstances required it' #just urgh #chef's kiss #and i will be raving about the humour in the seminar #like yeah i still have another 250 pages or something to go and secondary reading to do #but it's a good book #personal #lit talks #adam bede