📖 "Middlemarch", de George Eliot; Alba, 2003; pg. 235. 🎨 "Retrato de George Eliot", de Frederic William Burton (1865). 🎨 Detalle del "Retrato de la cantante Germaine Gien", de Philip Alexius de László (1921).

middlemarch by george eliot. what is there to say…perfect, funny, thoughtful, moving novel with deep empathy for its characters, even the ones who are awful

I’m reading Middlemarch right now and this is the first engagement

Middlemarch Anthony Page 1994 In the patient weave of ordinary lives, ambition, and desire quietly contend, as the film suggests that a person’s fate is often shaped less by grand events than by the moral weight of the choices made in stillness. Trailer: tiny.cc/l925101

Middlemarch, just push through the boring hospital stuff with Lydgate at the beginning

Middlemarch.

Where’s the rape scene in Middlemarch?

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Anyone who thinks women aren’t funny has never read Jane Eyre or Middlemarch #theyrestupid

Oh that's very neat! No worries, I love capabilities anecdotes; they spark ideas that can become real evals. For an existing and famous novel like Middlemarch though, given Fable is likely a much larger ~10T model, I suspect its strength is due to better pre-train representation.

Anything I say will be annoyingly anecdotal, but, e.g., I spent a good amount of time discussing Middlemarch with Fable, and it was consistently penetrating, keeping track of the world, the characters, and my relations to them better than I'd seen and better than a lot of humans.

George Eliot ainda está na minha lista, mas quero ler Middlemarch assim que possível.

Mother-son bookclub is in full swing! We are reading George Eliot’s Middlemarch. First impressions; it is a bit slow but also like a film where the characters are presented and then we learn about them. Dorothea for all her book smarts seems naive and rigid. The boys think Fred is a Chud. I find Rosamund funny. Looking forward to reading more. It is strange that George Eliot was not a believer as her insight into humanity and the human heart lends itself to reflection of the Divine.

Middlemarch by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans). It was once voted the best English novel ever written, in an international poll, and I have no doubt that it is.

Piensa tu mismo, ensayo en The Review (NYB) en su edición para el 25 de Junio, fragmentos: Think for yourself Dan Chiasson Profesor en Wellesley Boston "AI has made contemporaneous self-reflexivity almost a necessary precondition for anyone who tries to write about it, now that, from behind the blinking cursor marking my every pause and hesitation in writing this sentence, a serpent waits to strike. I would prefer not to write sentences that track their own emergence from thought; I don’t like the kind of faddish writing that does this, this very thing that I am doing; but now that I feel I must actively preserve thinking as the medium in which language is generated, against Google’s satanic offer to “Help Me Write,” I also feel I should think about what it is I’m preserving, and who, exactly, the tempter is, and why they are so eager to “help me” surrender the pleasure of making the next associative or logical leap on my own, from hints and insinuations found inside a brain that can never fully know itself, or—sorry if this seems vain—tire of trying." El autor evade los lugares comunes de la crítica hacia la IA y en su lugar se pregunta por qué es exactamente lo que distingue al proceso de escritura humana del robótico y cita tres ejemplos: Elliot, Bischop y Glück. Los tres bellísimos ejemplos, por cierto. Luego de estructurar el ensayo en diferentes horas de su día real, es decir: un día cotidiano de un americano promedio, incluye un disclaimer interesante que deja a sus estudiantes de literatura, dice: "AI Statement I forbid students’ use of all forms of Artificial Intelligence, including Large Language Models (LLM), in my courses, unless I announce otherwise. I believe that writing is the most astonishing of all human technologies. English professors teach the history of human innovations in this infinitely rich and adaptable technology. These innovations bear names like “The Canterbury Tales,” “Hamlet,” “To Autumn,” “Middlemarch,” “Ulysses,” “The Moose,” “Giovanni’s Room,” and “Beloved.” These innovators who have made and remade our language over the centuries are known as “poets,” “playwrights,” “novelists,” “critics,” “translators,” and “essayists.” I try to teach what is of value in their remarkable linguistic inventions, or others of equal value. I also try to teach students to detect in all texts the unique traces of the human mind. My love for human language leads me to strongly oppose all attempts by machines to impersonate it. Furthermore, I am dismayed that some colleges and institutions have normalized AIuse for fields whose reason for being is to explore and promote the value of original human expression. Even as a scholar and teacher of English, I do not believe that I am uniquely equipped to detect impersonation of human writing by LLM and other forms of AI. As a publishing writer, it seems I am mostly powerless to keep my work from being harvested against my will and repackaged by the major AI companies. I oppose the ways our unique human voices are being exploited for the concentrated profits of a few companies and executives. I invite you to see a clear moral value in writing done by humans, as I do. If you do share this belief, please join my class and hold yourself to your own high and admirable standard. If you do not, please do not enroll. In the English Department, we believe “Writing is for Humans.” ________ Supongo que este ensayo encabeza la edición de la revista a propósito del documento que Leon XIV publicó recientemente sobre el tema, pues, tanto en forma y fondo, trabaja el argumento teológico central de la encíclica: la escritura es un patrimonio de la humanidad y es, hasta ahora, lo único que redime al hombre de perder su alma, su inagotable singularidad. Hace ya una década que dejé la cátedra, pero quienes continuaron esa carrera me han contado lo mucho que ha cambiado desde entonces, y lo irreconocible que se ha vuelto la persona del aprendiz.

Quite a few of my favourite classics do too, or at least a questionable sexual interaction. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Middlemarch, Poldark.

It’s fine. To Robert, reading Middlemarch in two days is different.

George Eliot's Middlemarch is a beautiful eye-opening drama exploring themes like love, marriage, sacrifice, expectations & how interconnected some lives are that choices of one individuals impacts the destinies of others. A must read!!