Gloria’s Comments (group member since Oct 17, 2013)

Gloria’s comments from the Reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time in 2014 group.

Alia - painting with words is spot on.

Oh, and i must mention that i do so appreciate that compassion and humor Jonathan speaks of as i am able so see some similarities between the narrator's aunt and my own elderly father whom has the ability to drive me to distraction much of the time.

We could compare the aunts interest of the goings on of Combray to the way many older people wil now a day watch television. i guess it's a way to live vicariosly through others. Ha, as we may do upon reading Proust.

many sublime picturesque tales

Ode to the hawthorn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crataegu...

"Now are the woods all black, but still the sky is blue".
Page 167 and 168

Most beautiful phrase of today's read - "Now are the woods all black, but still the sky is blue".

No, but I'm really intrigued by Bergotte and was thinking it was a real person. If it's true that it was based on France i would love to read some of his work.

I completely agree Alia. It is a goal of mine to try to pay more attention, to be mindful in hopes of realizing more of life's potential.

I think you're on to something there Jonathan and i believe that taking it all much slower may be one of the best pearls we learn from this endeavor.

Jonathan wrote: "Gloria wrote: "Page 49
"And in myself, too, many things have perished which i imagined would last for ever, and new ones have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days i ..."

So you will be the entertaining one:)

Larry wrote: "I'm reading the Random House three volume edition (1981), so the page count doesn't quite match with the Modern Library edition. My apologies. In my edition, this quote is found on page 40:

"But o..."

There are so many of these feelings that he brings to light in which our experiences of youth resinate beneath the surface of our life even now.

Page 49
"And in myself, too, many things have perished which i imagined would last for ever, and new ones have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days i could not have foreseen, just as now the old are hard to understand."
In my own life of 57 years this is something that i've found one learns happens to us all but Proust has a way of describing it perfectly.

I have a favorite observation so far. It's on page 49. I won't post yet so as not to spoil for others who are not there.

Thanks Joni:) i too wish there were a "like" option.

Like Alia i recently read Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life and i love how i could read a small section and then ponder it's meaning and what it meant to my own life. I have the desire to live life mindfully but it is very difficult to do when all around you everyone is in fast paced mode and i myself have so many things that i think need to be accomplished everyday. I think Proust will help me to slow down and drink in the small, the seemingly insignificant beauty that life has to offer. So that is my reason for beginning this year of Proust. I have also more or less been in a reading sabbatical for the last month in order to create a space in my mind so that my first book of In Search of Lost Time will feel like beginning anew.