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Between sessions of physical therapy, during the long, empty hours lived in the vividly painful and incomprehensible body I had become, I could enter into George Eliot's imagined provincial world [of Middlemarch ]. I was far better off in the Vincys' hospitable house, or the oppressively evangelical Mr. Bulstrode's office at the bank, or with young, vibrant Dorothea in the Lowick house of the Rev.