Middlemarch township flooded in 2018 then again in 2021. The Regional Council says there's no cheap or easy solution.
"But council's flood hazard analyst Nathan Anderson said there was also some good news, including debris flow not being a major concern.
Paraphrasing, 'Your houses will flood regularly but you're unlikely to drown.' I'm not sure I'd categorise that as good news.
Serious thinkers about ethics and lives worth living should spend less time on the trolley problem and more on "Middlemarch".
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Isn't it weird how your frame of mind impacts your enjoyment of a book?
Example: I have tried and failed many times to get into George Eliot's "Middlemarch". I always found it dry and incredibly slow paced. Where is the plot? It's so many words about nothing.
This time around, I finally get it. Listening to the audiobook (Narrator: Nadia May) helped. Middlemarch is a *comedy* and the humor is in absurdity of these human characters in responding to their situations.
New blog post! I may have gone just a teensy bit feral about Middlemarch and hopepunk.
https://hawksquill.ink/blog/middlemarchashopepunk.html
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“We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.”
Excerpt From
Middlemarch
George Eliot
“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
~ Mary Ann Evans (AKA George Eliot), Middlemarch
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