Saturday, 5 May 2012

you could be cast in marble, dear

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It had seemed to him as if they were two creatures slowly turning to marble in each other's presence, while their hearts were conscious and their eyes were yearning.
George Eliot - Middlemarch

I must say that I have hardly come across a fictional relationship as romantic and at the same time as realistic as the one between Dorothea and Will Ladislaw. I say 'realistic' because I have felt exactly like Will does on more than one occasion in the past six months.

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