APS TOGETHER
Day 23
New Grub Street by George GissingChapter 23
November 28, 2023 by Yiyun Li
“No meddling with the books that are no books, nothing about essays on bi-metallism and treaties for or against vaccination.”
Concrete evidence we haven’t advanced far from the 1880s. Vaccination will remain an evergreen debate—perhaps we as a collective have very limited capacity for learning from the past.
“My dear, I am not a man fitted for subordinate places. My nature is framed for authority.”
This reminds me of a woman who once walked into a workshop I taught at. The first thing she said to me: “I want you to know that I’m not made to be a listener, only a leader.”
Alfred Yule is so transparently distasteful in his manipulation of his daughter that one cannot help but feel there is justice in his failure as a writer, a husband, a father, and as a human being.
