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Symphony of Sentences

Book club's favorite sentences from "Middlemarch," chapters 4-8

This time we did funniest sentences, and people were allowed to read two sentences in a row if the humor needed it.

One line in particular gathered a bunch of club members together as “sentence buddies” — by my count, four people chose that sentence about the semi-colons and parentheses in Casaubon’s blood.

“He has got no good red blood in his body,” said Sir James.

“No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses,” said Mrs. Cadwallader.

Four is a record — I think — for sentence buddies in book club.

All these sentences were written by George Eliot. Art by Kathryn Rathke

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