All this wonderful press and attention on “The Corner” and then an attack on George Eliot?

Not on my watch, not in my lifetime.

Read all of her, all of her. Deronda is sublime but always start with Middlemarch then to The Mill on the Floss.

I am shocked, shocked.

To be riding so high (yes on my brother’s coattails in large part I admit — by the way, I get his advice all the time for free!) and then have this slap at greatness.

Life, that’s what it is.