Reading Lord Jim this week for book club, I was reminded again of the many readings of the word “romantic.” Jim’s trouble (boiling way down) is that he wants to see himself as the hero in some adventure story but does not (always/ever) act the hero. Another character describes Jim repeatedly as romantic. The word [...]
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