https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n24/stefan-collini/mainly-puddling Created Fri, 01/12/2023 - 00:00 Updated Fri, 01/12/2023 - 00:00 By 1875 the eighty-year-old Thomas Carlyle was ready to die. In fact, he was rather looking forward to death, at least officially, more than once referring to it as ‘release’. To...