Chapter 2
Casaubon first appears at dinner: 'two white moles with hairs on them.' His mythologies project is announced.
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From Middlemarch by George Eliot
The desiccated scholar Casaubon is introduced as the pedantic clergyman whose lifelong project, the Key to All Mythologies, becomes the novel's emblem of futile intellectual ambition.
Chapter 5
His marriage proposal letter, a masterpiece of cold, syntactically tortured self-regard.
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The Rome honeymoon: Dorothea weeps in her boudoir as she realizes the 'shallows' of his mind; the famous passage on the 'roar which lies on the other side of silence.'
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