ReemK10 (Paper Pills)’s Comments (group member since Dec 26, 2012)

ReemK10 (Paper Pills)’s comments from the The Year of Reading Proust group.

Aloha wrote: "You're the second person to recommend Hot & Sour soup for a cold. The vinegar and spice is good for that."

It's better than any pharmaceutical drug! Go get some Aloha! Get a good amount so that you can heat some up later. Hope you feel better soon.

Ce Ce wrote: "·Karen· wrote: "Well, it's true that I will be in the Himalayas for Samhain, but I'm still here for the moment, and doing a brilliant imitation of Tante Leonie: bed ridden, seeing the world only fr..."

LOL Ce Ce! You've been so funny lately. Karen, Aloha, and her daughter, hope you all feel better. Nothing worse than a cold when you have so much to do. I swear by the Chinese hot and sour soup for a speedy recovery from a bad cold. Trust me! It works miracles!There must be a Chinese restaurant around you where you can pick up a bowl for take away.

Aloha wrote: "Thanks, Reem! Why didn't I just click on your link and put it on Pinterest? Duh! That's how I read all seven volumes, by not leaving brain cells for anything else. :oD

If you think I read fast..."

Good grief! I don't know how you readers do it! Is it speed reading?

Aloha wrote: "Reem, would you post the link to the mask in post 3293, too? Thank you!"

Yes of course Aloha, very happy to oblige.

Here it is: http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/lux...

How is that Vollmann read going? As I read ISOLT, I always wonder how the heck you managed to read all seven volumes in such a short period of time! Hope all is well with you and your daughter.

Ce Ce wrote:
Reem wrote: We were too busy diagnosing her husband with Asperger's syndrome!!! lol "

I choked on my orange juice, Reem! :-D


LOL!!!

Thanks Fionnuala for letting us know. Waving to Kalliope. I'm sure that you can read this but just can't take part. We miss you!

Fionnuala wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: " There's a major glitch, however; in Swann's Way she has two little girls (when Mme Verdurin mentions Elstir's portrait of the Cottard family)."

Hadn't noticed that glitch, Eliza..."

We were too busy diagnosing her husband with Asperger's syndrome!!! lol

Elizabeth wrote: "Added on: I, too, really like Mme Cottard (being married to the Doctor qualifies her for sainthood, right off. Her name, Leontine, is so like Tante Leonie; and you're right; I think she's smarter ..."

Elizabeth, you really must put all your trivia into a format that can be shared by many! A book, a blog, twitter, tumblr..... You pick up on things that readers want to read! Quite amazing!

Fionnuala wrote: "I'll come as Mme Cottard, and try to be smarter than I sometimes sound!
(I think she is an underrated character - I think Proust might have had plans to develop her a little - he gives her little m..."

I've always liked MMe Cottard. I agree that she could have become a great character! And Kalliope I love your blue mask! Ce Ce as Elister is great! lol Kalli must be MME Verdurin. I see Jocelyne as the Duchesse de Guermantes in her red gown and shoes! Waiting to see what Marcelita comes as. Elizabeth? Elaine? Phillida? Who else wants to come? Karen is off hiking in the Himalayas. I think Karen would get a kick out of being Tante Leonie and arguing with her maids who could help her with all the things she needs to get done!

Oh fun, fun! I raided Marcelita's pinterest closet for my costume. I will go as Marie de Rabutin-Chantal. Marquise de Sévigné was a celebrated letter-writer and have a few letters tucked into my bosom.



Having probs posting images.

http://e08595.medialib.glogster.com/m...

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/26099774...


Madame de Sevigne, yes that would be perfect. Patricia can be my daughter!!!!

Ce Ce wrote: "With the discovery of a photo of this floor lamp online I've started to fantasize about ditching my red suede fleece lined footwear for Marcelita's exquisitely embroidered silk slippers...a Fortuny..."

This lamp looks like it came out of the Baron de Charlus's room at the Chateau Gabriel.

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/19597702...

Marcelita, great quotes that I shall borrow for my tumblr. Merci!!

Nadine Gordimer on Marcel Proust


There are two ways in which great literature impacts upon society. The one is cultural, in narrow definition of the culture as practice of the arts: the writer breaks the traditional seals of the Word, takes off into exploration of new modes of expression, challenges and changes what fiction is. After Proust, after Joyce, yes, the novel could never be the same.
How Marcel Proust changed the concept of the novel as a form I know has been often expounded by by eminent scholars and I shall not have the presumption to entire that discussion, or not, at least, at this time.
The other impact of great literature is its power of changing the consciousness of readers––even if the lay reader were to have no awareness of how it is done, the literary techniques and devices the writer has taken up, reinvented or invented. As a fiction writer, I have been alertly privy to and no doubt learn from the literary innovations of Marcel Proust. But a writer finds her own voice or is not a writer. What has remained with me for a lifetime is the influence of Proust’s emotional and aesthetic perceptions. […]
Marcel Proust is a writer with whom one moves along, for life; reading and re-reading, without ever exhausting the sources he reveals only when one is ready for, or made ready for them.

(view spoiler)[ At the grand and poignant final social-gathering-of-all-social-gatherings narrator Marcel finds past friends and acquaintances unrecognisably changed by age, while still having the sense of himself as he had been back in his mother’s eyes. He replies to a young woman’s invitation to dine: “With pleasure, if you don’t mind dining along with a young man” and only when he hears people giggle, adds hastily “or rather an old one.” Later he realizes that the span of time represented by the aspect of the gathering not only had been lived through but was his life, presented to him.>

As I grow old I find myself ready for the revelation. Time Regained, of this Proustian source when, among old friends with whom I was always the youngest of the circle, I realize we are, now, all alike, disguised in the garb of ageing. I, like everyone else, have to be introduced––to myself. Proust makes it another epiphany.

Excerpted from “Personal Proust” by Nadine Gordimer (hide spoiler)]

Kalliope wrote: "ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "

Yes, yes you do. How about this one tha..."

Oh, this is lovely.. I should borrow it and have it as my status update while I am away."

lol, yes, you should. :)

Kalliope wrote: "ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "T
Nice pics: http://corinamoscovich.blogspot.com/2......"

Thank you...I also have a Spiral as mask.."

Yes, yes you do. How about this one that has the blue and spirals?

Marcelita wrote:
"...I had finished writing it, I was so filled with happiness, I felt that it had so entirely relieved my mind of its obsession with the steeples and the mystery which lay behind them, that, as though I myself were a hen and had just laid an egg, I began to sing at the top of my voice." MP Swann's Way


Great find. We come full circle with the chicken posts.

Kalliope wrote:
I love the Tiepolo Blue...!!!

Kalliope, my pink and your blue.

https://www.goodreads.com/photo/user/...

Marcelita wrote: "ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "Marcelita, you must have seen this before.
Check 14:20 onward
http://www.viamontenapoleone.org/eng/......"

Marcelita, I read something just the other day about the Hotel Lambert. The fire was a result of the restorations the Qatari prince was doing on the place.

"One of the finest houses in Paris — the Hôtel Lambert, the 17th-century palace built by Louis Le Vau on the Île Saint-Louis — was having its heart ripped out by its new owner, Prince Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani, half-brother of the Emir of Qatar. To customize the building for luxury living, new bathrooms and an elevator were to have been inserted, an underground garage added and the garden wall raised. But the plans were altered after loud protests. Last July, in the midst of the renovations, the house was severely disfigured when a fire in the middle of the night collapsed part of the roof, destroying a set of important frescoes."

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/20...

I loved the terms horror vacui and amor vacui. I favor the horror vacui, but with no clutter!

For the first time in history, the more money you’ve got, the emptier your home is. The Victorians were criticized for their “horror vacui,” the fear of empty space that led to rooms cluttered with bookcases, pictures and bric-a-brac. The new rich suffer from the opposite condition: “amor vacui,” or the love of empty space. Across the world — from London to New York, from Paris to Florence — the new tycoons’ houses have become vacuums.

Marcelita, you must have seen this before.

Check 14:20 onward

http://www.viamontenapoleone.org/eng/...

Then scroll down to:
Le Bal Proust, hosted by Baroness Guy de Rothschild and held in Ferrières in December 1971, celebrated the centenary of the birth of Proust and each guest came dressed as their favourite Proust character from his À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). Each guest came dressed as their favourite Proust character opening up a whole universe of possibilities for both the guests and later Van Cleef & Arpels.

Adding more: Marchesa Luisa Casati-She had affairs with both men and women and captivated Marcel Proust.

http://fashionsmostwanted.blogspot.co...

http://salomeawrona.wordpress.com/201...

Thinking of Kalliope going to Venice.

“When I went to Venice – my dream became my address. “ Marcel Proust – Letter to Madame Strauss.

Nice pics: http://corinamoscovich.blogspot.com/2...


Includes quotes by Thomas Mann, Truman Capote,Mark Twain, and Goethe.

Kalliope, be sure to buy yourself a Venetian mask!!

This one says Kalli to me:

Marcelita wrote: "ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "I am totally in love with Tiepolo Pink. I think it's such a gorgeous color! I went in search of blue with regards to Proust and found a painting that is to have inspir..."

Thanks for posting the painting Blue Moonlight. I couldn't get it to work. Marcelita, you make for a most wonderful tour guide for this year of reading Proust.

I am totally in love with Tiepolo Pink. I think it's such a gorgeous color! I went in search of blue with regards to Proust and found a painting that is to have inspired Proust. I believed we talked about this way back when.

Alexander Harrison's Blue Moonlight c1900


This pdf discusses Harrison's influence on Proust.
http://davidadamscleveland.com/wp-con...

@Marcelita and Fionnuala thanks for explaining St. Beuve.

I found Tiepolo Blue!
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