"Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it." V2 pg 83
Rare indeed.
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Rare indeed.
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May 13, 2024 at 11:04 PM
"Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it." V2 pg 83
Rare indeed.
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Rare indeed.
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April 16, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Yay for you! I am reading 5-10 pages a day, maybe 5 days a week, depending on my other commitments. :-) I hope you post some comments and/or quotes.
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April 2, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Yay for you! I am reading 5-10 pages a day, maybe 5 days a week, depending on my other commitments. :-) I hope you post some comments and/or quotes.
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The beginning of Within a Budding Grove (Vol 2) Proust aptly illustrates the struggle of trying to discern if a person--in this case Swann--has changed or if he was indeed always the way he was right then.
I confess I feel his pain.
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I confess I feel his pain.
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April 1, 2024 at 3:59 PM
The beginning of Within a Budding Grove (Vol 2) Proust aptly illustrates the struggle of trying to discern if a person--in this case Swann--has changed or if he was indeed always the way he was right then.
I confess I feel his pain.
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I confess I feel his pain.
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Swann's Way has a tiny reference to tea toward the end so might be seen as a complete piece in itself. However, to me it seems more like the scene is set, we've met the characters and gotten their background, and now the real drama (I hesistate to use "action") begins.
Swann's Way has a tiny reference to tea toward the end so might be seen as a complete piece in itself. However, to me it seems more like the scene is set, we've met the characters and gotten their background, and now the real drama (I hesistate to use "action") begins.
April 1, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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Swann's Way has a tiny reference to tea toward the end so might be seen as a complete piece in itself. However, to me it seems more like the scene is set, we've met the characters and gotten their background, and now the real drama (I hesistate to use "action") begins.
Swann's Way has a tiny reference to tea toward the end so might be seen as a complete piece in itself. However, to me it seems more like the scene is set, we've met the characters and gotten their background, and now the real drama (I hesistate to use "action") begins.
The speaker is so in love with Gilberte he's brought to a literal standstill by the sight of her butler taking the dog out. Francoise, the caregiver, would ask him "What's wrong with you now?"p591
Some might find that question funny. But the last word--now--screams volumes. #Proust #ProustBeforeIDie
Some might find that question funny. But the last word--now--screams volumes. #Proust #ProustBeforeIDie
March 29, 2024 at 4:56 PM
The speaker is so in love with Gilberte he's brought to a literal standstill by the sight of her butler taking the dog out. Francoise, the caregiver, would ask him "What's wrong with you now?"p591
Some might find that question funny. But the last word--now--screams volumes. #Proust #ProustBeforeIDie
Some might find that question funny. But the last word--now--screams volumes. #Proust #ProustBeforeIDie
I had to press pause on the Barthes/Briggs read because of all the Proust mentions. I'm almost finished with Swann's Way and will be on to Budding Grove tomorrow.
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March 28, 2024 at 3:13 PM
I had to press pause on the Barthes/Briggs read because of all the Proust mentions. I'm almost finished with Swann's Way and will be on to Budding Grove tomorrow.
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"At the period when I was in love with Gilberte, I still believed that Love did really exist outside ourselves...." p569
Ah youth!
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Ah youth!
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March 23, 2024 at 4:58 PM
"At the period when I was in love with Gilberte, I still believed that Love did really exist outside ourselves...." p569
Ah youth!
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Ah youth!
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"To get through each day, natures that are at all highly strung, as was mine, are equipped, like motor-cars, with different gears. There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an inifinite time to climb, and downward sloping days...." p.555
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Same.
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Same.
March 21, 2024 at 5:56 PM
"To get through each day, natures that are at all highly strung, as was mine, are equipped, like motor-cars, with different gears. There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an inifinite time to climb, and downward sloping days...." p.555
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Same.
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Same.
"The countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be"p555 Swann's Way
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It's just as true about our states of mind as well. I wonder if the original French brings out that double meaning.
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It's just as true about our states of mind as well. I wonder if the original French brings out that double meaning.
March 20, 2024 at 4:17 PM
"The countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be"p555 Swann's Way
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It's just as true about our states of mind as well. I wonder if the original French brings out that double meaning.
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It's just as true about our states of mind as well. I wonder if the original French brings out that double meaning.
On Odette's inadvertant admissions: "...he could never forget. His soul carried them along, cast them aside, then cradled them again in its bosom, like corpses in a river. And they poisoned it" (p526)
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March 14, 2024 at 3:59 PM
On Odette's inadvertant admissions: "...he could never forget. His soul carried them along, cast them aside, then cradled them again in its bosom, like corpses in a river. And they poisoned it" (p526)
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"He [Swann] marvelled at the terrible re-creative power of his memory" (p.523)
Don't we all at one time or another? Over and over again.
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Don't we all at one time or another? Over and over again.
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March 14, 2024 at 3:54 PM
"He [Swann] marvelled at the terrible re-creative power of his memory" (p.523)
Don't we all at one time or another? Over and over again.
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Don't we all at one time or another? Over and over again.
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Reading Briggs and Barthes has pushed me back into Proust. I can't help but feel I'm missing so much of what Barthes says in The Preparation of the Novel because I've never finished In Search of Lost Time.
Sigh. #Proust #ProustBeforeIDie
Reading Briggs and Barthes has pushed me back into Proust. I can't help but feel I'm missing so much of what Barthes says in The Preparation of the Novel because I've never finished In Search of Lost Time.
Sigh. #Proust #ProustBeforeIDie
March 1, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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Reading Briggs and Barthes has pushed me back into Proust. I can't help but feel I'm missing so much of what Barthes says in The Preparation of the Novel because I've never finished In Search of Lost Time.
Sigh. #Proust #ProustBeforeIDie
Reading Briggs and Barthes has pushed me back into Proust. I can't help but feel I'm missing so much of what Barthes says in The Preparation of the Novel because I've never finished In Search of Lost Time.
Sigh. #Proust #ProustBeforeIDie
#Proust, #ProustBeforeIDie When Swann and the princess chat at the party, I feel like I know them--which, of course, is the point. Making jokes that only the important people get--usually at someone else's expense--seems a poor form of entertainment. And yet this party scene? So good.
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March 1, 2024 at 2:18 PM
#Proust, #ProustBeforeIDie When Swann and the princess chat at the party, I feel like I know them--which, of course, is the point. Making jokes that only the important people get--usually at someone else's expense--seems a poor form of entertainment. And yet this party scene? So good.
#SwannsWay
#SwannsWay
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Swann's manufactured emotions regarding Odette--his swings from adoration to hatred and back again--remind me that Odette manufactured their relationship in the first place. She spoke to him using words that assumed a relationship where there was none--until there was one.
Swann's manufactured emotions regarding Odette--his swings from adoration to hatred and back again--remind me that Odette manufactured their relationship in the first place. She spoke to him using words that assumed a relationship where there was none--until there was one.
January 23, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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Swann's manufactured emotions regarding Odette--his swings from adoration to hatred and back again--remind me that Odette manufactured their relationship in the first place. She spoke to him using words that assumed a relationship where there was none--until there was one.
Swann's manufactured emotions regarding Odette--his swings from adoration to hatred and back again--remind me that Odette manufactured their relationship in the first place. She spoke to him using words that assumed a relationship where there was none--until there was one.
Proust goes on to describe how this pain differs from phyiscal pain, and how physical can can diminish and be forgotten. Then he writes this, "In this case the mind, merely recalling the pain, created it afresh." p.391
Would that it were not so.
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Would that it were not so.
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January 6, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Proust goes on to describe how this pain differs from phyiscal pain, and how physical can can diminish and be forgotten. Then he writes this, "In this case the mind, merely recalling the pain, created it afresh." p.391
Would that it were not so.
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Would that it were not so.
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January 2, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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Swann maintained a "resistance to complete conversion, the like of which they had never come across in anyone before." p354.
Swann is so busy telling himself tales, convincing himself of so many lies, he cannot handle any conditioning/ programing from others.
Swann maintained a "resistance to complete conversion, the like of which they had never come across in anyone before." p354.
Swann is so busy telling himself tales, convincing himself of so many lies, he cannot handle any conditioning/ programing from others.
December 17, 2023 at 7:37 PM
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Swann maintained a "resistance to complete conversion, the like of which they had never come across in anyone before." p354.
Swann is so busy telling himself tales, convincing himself of so many lies, he cannot handle any conditioning/ programing from others.
Swann maintained a "resistance to complete conversion, the like of which they had never come across in anyone before." p354.
Swann is so busy telling himself tales, convincing himself of so many lies, he cannot handle any conditioning/ programing from others.
Swann "tried not to counteract those vulgar ideas, that bad taste which she [Odette] displayed on every possible occasion, and which in fact he loved, as he could not help loving everything that came from her..." p348
This, like so much of Proust, will take some unpacking.
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This, like so much of Proust, will take some unpacking.
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December 14, 2023 at 3:02 PM
Swann "tried not to counteract those vulgar ideas, that bad taste which she [Odette] displayed on every possible occasion, and which in fact he loved, as he could not help loving everything that came from her..." p348
This, like so much of Proust, will take some unpacking.
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This, like so much of Proust, will take some unpacking.
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Proust's description of Swann haunts me: "Swann--whose eyes, although delicate interpreters of painting, whose mind, although an acute observer of manners, must bear for ever the indelible imprint of the barrenness of his life...." p 336
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December 14, 2023 at 2:55 PM
Proust's description of Swann haunts me: "Swann--whose eyes, although delicate interpreters of painting, whose mind, although an acute observer of manners, must bear for ever the indelible imprint of the barrenness of his life...." p 336
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pg 330 is Swann and Odette's first kiss. And I am struck by Swann's pause: "He had wanted to leave time for his mind to catch up with him, to recognise the dream which it had so long cherished and to assist at its realisation, like a relative invited as a spectator."
pg 330 is Swann and Odette's first kiss. And I am struck by Swann's pause: "He had wanted to leave time for his mind to catch up with him, to recognise the dream which it had so long cherished and to assist at its realisation, like a relative invited as a spectator."
December 7, 2023 at 5:28 PM
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pg 330 is Swann and Odette's first kiss. And I am struck by Swann's pause: "He had wanted to leave time for his mind to catch up with him, to recognise the dream which it had so long cherished and to assist at its realisation, like a relative invited as a spectator."
pg 330 is Swann and Odette's first kiss. And I am struck by Swann's pause: "He had wanted to leave time for his mind to catch up with him, to recognise the dream which it had so long cherished and to assist at its realisation, like a relative invited as a spectator."
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"Odette played [the piano] vilely" p335.
Is there anything that Swann admires about Odette? While he twists through justification after justification about his relationship with Odette, the descriptions are fraught with dubious asides.
"Odette played [the piano] vilely" p335.
Is there anything that Swann admires about Odette? While he twists through justification after justification about his relationship with Odette, the descriptions are fraught with dubious asides.
December 7, 2023 at 5:25 PM
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"Odette played [the piano] vilely" p335.
Is there anything that Swann admires about Odette? While he twists through justification after justification about his relationship with Odette, the descriptions are fraught with dubious asides.
"Odette played [the piano] vilely" p335.
Is there anything that Swann admires about Odette? While he twists through justification after justification about his relationship with Odette, the descriptions are fraught with dubious asides.
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Swann's frantic search for Odette stemmed"an anguish "which, when resolved,"might almost be called happiness." And we're told "it was to that hour of anguish that he owed the importance which Odette had since assumed in his life." p334
One random act can hold so much power.
Swann's frantic search for Odette stemmed"an anguish "which, when resolved,"might almost be called happiness." And we're told "it was to that hour of anguish that he owed the importance which Odette had since assumed in his life." p334
One random act can hold so much power.
December 7, 2023 at 5:19 PM
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Swann's frantic search for Odette stemmed"an anguish "which, when resolved,"might almost be called happiness." And we're told "it was to that hour of anguish that he owed the importance which Odette had since assumed in his life." p334
One random act can hold so much power.
Swann's frantic search for Odette stemmed"an anguish "which, when resolved,"might almost be called happiness." And we're told "it was to that hour of anguish that he owed the importance which Odette had since assumed in his life." p334
One random act can hold so much power.
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Swann is captivated by the music more than Odette.
And the more we read about Swann, the more he sounds like he is his own work of art--a painter's study of how to be a polite gentleman. And as a delicate work of art (isn't all art delicate?) I fear Swann will break.
Swann is captivated by the music more than Odette.
And the more we read about Swann, the more he sounds like he is his own work of art--a painter's study of how to be a polite gentleman. And as a delicate work of art (isn't all art delicate?) I fear Swann will break.
November 30, 2023 at 5:34 PM
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Swann is captivated by the music more than Odette.
And the more we read about Swann, the more he sounds like he is his own work of art--a painter's study of how to be a polite gentleman. And as a delicate work of art (isn't all art delicate?) I fear Swann will break.
Swann is captivated by the music more than Odette.
And the more we read about Swann, the more he sounds like he is his own work of art--a painter's study of how to be a polite gentleman. And as a delicate work of art (isn't all art delicate?) I fear Swann will break.
Yes! and we will get there. #ProustBeforeIDie
November 26, 2023 at 4:42 PM
Yes! and we will get there. #ProustBeforeIDie