-You should marry someone in a similar social position as yourself?
-You always marry someone as mentally healthy as you are?
-Is it OK to set up boundaries to protect your marriage?
-You are unique, no one is like you- there has never been anyone like you. Two unique people get married, and all marriages are different. This creation has never happened before.
-Wisdom: Is it derived from observance of others? Or from our own mistakes?
Read with a reason, a purpose. Read disinterestedly. Write notes, paragraphs outside the book. Code your own thoughts with a //. Have some sort of conversation about the book. Use the 1828 dictionary http://machaut.uchicago.edu/websters.
The whole book is a dance. Why?
PRIDE: Doesn't listen, Lizzy, Darcy
PREJUDICE: Listen, Mrs. Bennet, Lizzy, Catherine, Darcy
Louis L'amour: The Lonesome Gods
The Walking Drum/ The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind/Mainspring of Human Progress
What our business is determines our solace. The business of her live was to get her daughters married, it's solace was visiting and news. Q. What's your business? Your business and focus determines it's solace.
What are we choosing? Fame? Fortune? Happiness?
What has to happen so Pride and Prejudice can marry?
-Each has to change
-Humility
-Willingness to forgive
-Honest judgments
-Forgive past mistakes
-Heal wounds
-Help overcome fears
Take note of proverbs in Middlemarch. Read 2 parts each week. Pay attention to the quotes in the beginning of each chapter.
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