00:00 Middlemarch by George Eliot | In-Depth Summary & Analysis, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7hPizrOx4Y
05:00 Your Public Persona: Self-Presentation in Everyday Life, https://www.audible.com/pd/Your-Public-Persona-Self-Presentation-in-Everyday-Life-Audiobook/1629979686
17:00 Miami Beach struggle with riots, https://twitter.com/MisterCommodity/status/1373506957252911106
25:00 Middlemarch, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlemarch
59:00 The Book Club: Middlemarch by George Eliot with Heather MacDonald, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlrWi6dlmpc
1:04:00 My 2003 Heather MacDonald interview, https://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/heather_macdonald.htm
1:12:40 Luke and Kevin Michael Grace discuss Middlemarch, (1:05:00 in) https://rumble.com/vedzan-81-10-5-18-collins-for-the-win.html
1:20:00 My 2018 show with Kevin inspired a viewer to read Middlemarch, https://marzaat.wordpress.com/2018/10/26/middlemarch/
1:48:00 Middlemarch (In Our Time), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuj3T_fddcQ
1:52:00 David Friedrich Strauß, Father of Unbelief: An Intellectual Biography, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=138032
2:00 David Friedrich Strauss biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Strauss
2:29:00 David Friedrich Strauss on the JQ
2:39:00 Jerusalem hymn, https://youtu.be/7_5BLTdukAY?t=32
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