Steven Johnson → “of the hundred or so novels from the 19th and 20th century that I read during my grad school days, my favorites were Middlemarch and Bleak House, and Middlemarch is the one book that I try to re-read once a decade.” (View Highlight).
“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
Standard Ebooks edition: Middlemarch