October 2019
Beginner
400 pages
7h 56m
English
Be noble! and the nobleness that lies / In other men, sleeping, but never dead, / Will rise in majesty to meet thine own: / Then wilt thou see it gleam in many eyes, / Then will pure light around thy path be shed, / And thou wilt never more be sad and lone.
James Russell Lowell—“Sonnet IV” (1890)
Nothing very challenging about today's reading other than the smog of the classic portrayal of the hero having an occasional big noble moment no matter what a slacker they've been in the rest of the movie.
No, Lowell is talking about being noble, everyday noble, not doing a noble thing.
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