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The Last Thursday Club 47 highlights · 12 comments
Middlemarch · George Eliot · ch. 86

Her finely touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life.

RT Rhea"Unhistoric." Not ahistoric. Actively kept out of the record.
MC M.The thesis arriving 800 pages late, somehow on time.

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Middlemarch
incalculably diffusive
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Podcast · 24:11
On the Long Now
"…each week is the only week…"
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Essay
Purple Text, Orange Highlights
a solitary act that yearns to be social
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Voice note · 2:14
SK on the Eliot thing
"…unhistoric acts — the most important phrase she wrote."
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