It’s our biennial Taking a Whack at Proust day. Update: Screw you, terrorists, now we’re going to finish Proust.

Update: We’re up to Combray, chapter 2, past the madeleine stuff. Warning: Profanity You just brought a philosophy of rigorous self-abnegation to a pastry fight. You are fucked. John is the new Jon. * * * * * We’ve got the new translations in good-looking editions (lucky the three other volumes haven’t appeared or we’d […]