Scratch Pad: Middlemarch, Rain, Mann

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts serves, I’ve found, as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. Some items show up on disquiet.com before this post, in which case I don’t repeat them. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media. ▰ Can’t hear the rain. Can hear the car tires on the wet pavement. ▰ Never let it be stated that George Eliot’s Middlemarch lacks in what henceforth came to be termed bangers ▰ “It’s like a $90 million car. … A big portion of the budget was about shipping that exact car to location just so we can strap mics to it and run it through a tunnel. It’s not even in the movie. … It’s just to get the right sound, you know, for what what…

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