"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 heartbeat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
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Sharon Astyk is a writer, teacher and small farmer living in rural upstate New York and now writes at Casaubon's Book,
So everybody is talking about the Sopranos. I might as well weigh in. Personally, I thought the ambiguous ending was pretty brilliant. The Sopranos is always being compared to literature, but the engineered vagueness of that final scene is perhaps its most literary act.
Like Lynch, here is "the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users." So what I’ve read is in italics, what I never finished is struck through:
I have always loved this quote. And by "always," I mean since last summer when I read Middlemarch for the first time.
It's one of the great ones, ever.