Ep 356 - Middlemarch, by George Eliot

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

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🗓️ 6 May 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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We kick off May by looking back to the middle of March, courtesy of George Eliot's brick of a novel about an insular English community. Discussion topics include: marriage, weird inheritance rules, and the phrase "pleased as Punch."

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	Did you know, are you familiar with the phrase, please does punch.
0:45.6	Yes, I have been pleased as punch ever.
0:48.7	Do you know the provenance of that phrase?
0:51.4	Not at all.
0:53.1	Did you think that it was like, punch, like fruit punch?
0:56.8	Is it punch?
0:57.8	And then you just never really thought about it.
0:59.1	Is it punch like punch and Judy?
1:01.2	It is punch like punch and Judy.
1:03.0	Oh snap.
1:04.0	So I don't know what that guy has to be pleased about, but the novel middle marched by
1:08.4	George Elliott that I read for this week's episode of this podcast.
1:12.1	Craig's going to tell you about in a second.
1:14.0	Uses that phrase a few times and they kept capitalizing punch and I'm like, wait, is
1:19.7	punch a guy?
1:25.0	So I figured it out.
1:26.0	Welcome to.
1:27.0	He is from the 16th century.
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