I didn't know that, either! Good catch, rostasi.
"To be born the son of a Middlemarch manufacturer, and inevitable heir to nothing in particular." - George Eliot
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Morrissey had a flair for opening lines. With “I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar, I am the son and heir of nothing in particular”, he manages to be at once autobiographical and universal, direct and poetic, combining a delectable Oscar Wilde-esque turn of phrase (“criminally vulgar”) with a reference to George Eliot’s great Victorian novel Middlemarch (“To be born the son of a Middlemarch manufacturer, and inevitable heir to nothing in particular”). Rarely has crippling social anxiety sounded so charming.
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Middlemarch/Manchester?
https://ig.ft.com/life-of-a-song/how-soon-is-now.html