"the experience which we call emotional"

23 July 2018: "What seems eminently wanted is a closer comparison between the knowledge which we call rational & the experience which we call emotional." --George Eliot, in a notebook entry.

A moody, broody day here, no doubt in part because of the rain, a rapidly disappearing summer, and (as usual on these moody, broody days) big thoughts. I spent some more time reading about George Eliot and found myself struck by these words, which shed some light on Middlemarch, but also hit close to home on moody, broody days.