ATD sale date, Middlemarch, measuring...

[Tim Strzechowski]

And I had just finished _Bleak House_ on Monday evening, with its countless 
characters and beautifully wrought sentences, its humor and its delicious 
descriptions -- a perfect set-up for AtD!


> 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.

> 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....
>

Quite true!