tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post4351167871575836106..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Things of Valuezmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-51572754895202752872014-12-20T18:09:44.132+01:002014-12-20T18:09:44.132+01:00I had quite forgotten that. I must read the book a...I had quite forgotten that. I must read the book again, probably should have an each year ritual of doing so in fact. One thing that baffles me is how she could have written the best novel ever written, (I think), and then also written novels I just cannot get through. zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-23589189532377646412014-12-18T01:01:14.661+01:002014-12-18T01:01:14.661+01:00Thank you for a very moving tribute to a man who c...Thank you for a very moving tribute to a man who clearly touched many lives. Your point about the "quietly well-led life" was, as I'm sure you'll remember, perfectly expressed by George Eliot, at the end of 'Middlemarch':<br /><br />"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, and rest in unvisited tombs.” Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.com