ATD sale date, Middlemarch, measuring...

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Oddly enough, I was in the middle (about 100 pages into "Sodom & Gomorrah) of "In Search of Lost Time", so the extraordinary number of long poetic passages in Against the Day seemed to come from a rather similar place.
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From: Ande <andekgrahn at olympus.net>

 This is why I love this list--what a wonderful site and insight.  Thank  you, Tore.

 My copy still hasn't landed on my porch (and won't now until maybe Friday).  In anticipation of this worst case scenario, I had stopped at  the library, and MIddlemarch was the volume deemed best suited to fill the void.  (But I am a huge fan of Melville and Moby Dick) and when the "guys" are measuring, it isn't just the thickness of the tome, but the length and elegance of the sentences....
 
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