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===Shakespeare references===
 
===Shakespeare references===
 
*10 "The palm [Marty's] was red and blistering, as if her present occupation were as yet too recent to have subdued it to what it worked in." Sonnet 111, "the dyer's hand"
 
*10 "The palm [Marty's] was red and blistering, as if her present occupation were as yet too recent to have subdued it to what it worked in." Sonnet 111, "the dyer's hand"
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*26!"...a soul's specific gravity constantly reasserts itself as less than that of the sea of troubles into which it is thrown." About Melbury - Hamlet "to be" soliloquy, as the note suggests a very specific, labored yoking of literary imagery to scientific language about relative density

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General Notes

  • it seems like we come sideways into the main narrative: the central individuals are less important than community and landscape
    • 5 pastoral solitude contrasted with communal awareness
  • 14 "lifehold" lease on property - perhaps a lower class version of the life interest in property of the wealthy?

Theme Tracking

Reading and Writing

Materiality

Shakespeare references

  • 10 "The palm [Marty's] was red and blistering, as if her present occupation were as yet too recent to have subdued it to what it worked in." Sonnet 111, "the dyer's hand"
  • 26!"...a soul's specific gravity constantly reasserts itself as less than that of the sea of troubles into which it is thrown." About Melbury - Hamlet "to be" soliloquy, as the note suggests a very specific, labored yoking of literary imagery to scientific language about relative density