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

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

Deborah wrote: "This is so sad to me because it seems like it shows how Proust felt about himself. I also find it strange that almost everyone in the book engages in homosexual liaisons except the narrator. He has created a reverse world than the one he actually lived in. Does anyone else see the book this way??? "

Frankly no. I read it as an extremely rich depiction of a life well lived! He saw things from so many angles, it was fantastical to his imagination. I don't see him as a victim at all. How could he be when he had so much to fall back on?

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“The Past Is a Mist”: Pinter’s Proust

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/20...

Like many great, long works, À la recherche du temps perdu is widely discussed but seldom read in its entirety.

Books have a hypnotic power to make us feel like we are a part of them, something Proust himself observes in the first paragraph of Swann’s Way: “I had not ceased while sleeping to form reflections on what I had just read, but these reflections had taken a rather peculiar turn; it seemed to me that I myself was what the book was about: a church, a quartet, a rivalry between Francois I and Charles V.”

Historygirl wrote: "I finished the last pages of time regained on December 31, 2013, which seemed fitting. Thank you to Kalliope for the indefatigable responsiveness, encyclopedic knowledge and the art, architecture a..."

Third voyage reading Proust! Good for you Historygirl! It's been quite a journey reading together. I think that we have all thrived being a part of the Proust read. If you'd like to join us we are reading Dante's Divine Comedy next.

This is old, and I'm almost sure I posted it before. You may get a kick out of reading it again:

Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure.

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/20...

I think we're over analyzing but you're right Phillida. " The name "Sweet'n Low" derives from an 1863 song by Sir Joseph Barnby, which took both its title and lyrics from an Alfred Lord Tennyson poem, entitled The Princess: Sweet and Low. Sweet'n Low was first introduced in 1957." The novel was written in 1951.

Just enjoy the photos as they are. I found them delightful.

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
Gustave Flaubert (via quotes-shape-us)

Elaine wrote:
ha! Honestly, I love it when you come up with the answers, complete with quotes.

I know! She's amazing, isn't she?!!!

Let us know which recipe you used and how they turned out Elaine. And a photo! :)

Elaine wrote: "ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "10 great meals in literature

Swann's Way:


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/bo..."
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Elaine, I saved this recipe that Kalliope posted.

http://www.spanish-food.org/desserts-...

and this recipe that Marcelita posted:

http://www.gourmettraveller.com.au/re...

10 great meals in literature

Swann's Way:


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/bo...

As I was reading:
"Obituaries are sites of remembrance. But they are also testaments of our forgetting." I thought Proust was writing his own obituary.


"that the work of art was simply my past life; I undersood that they had come to me, in frivolous pleasures, in indolence, in unhappiness, and that I had stored them up without divining the purpose for which they were destined or even their continued existence any more than a seed does when it forms within itself a reserve of all the nutritious substances from which it will feed a plant. Like the seed, I should be able to die once that plant had developed and I began to perceive that I had lived for the sake of the plant without knowing it, without ever realizing that my life needed to come into contact with those books which I had wanted to write and for which, when in the past I sat down at my table to begin, I had been unable to find a subject. And thus my whole life up to the present day might and yet might not have been summed up under the title: A Vocation." (MKE 304)

...a book is a huge cemetary in which on the majority of the tombs the names are effaced and can no longer be read." (MKE 310)

http://www.dissentmagazine.org/articl...

Congrats on reading ISOLT Amelia!! Some of us will be in the DC and D group. See you there!

Marcelita wrote: "ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "I didn't even read this yet, but came to post it before Marcelita did! :) I'm going to miss posting links with you Marcelita!!! Tweeted it too. :)LOL Alicen beat me to..."

loool you're pretty funny yourself. I snooze, I lose.

I didn't even read this yet, but came to post it before Marcelita did! :) I'm going to miss posting links with you Marcelita!!! Tweeted it too. :)LOL Alicen beat me to it.


Marcel Proust - a savagely funny genius

Proust is many things, but, chief among them, he is a comic novelist, alert to the absurdity of human nature and behaviour
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/bo...

Elizabeth wrote: "Reem, thank you so much for your insightful comments, and flowers."

:) and thank you to you for all your wonderful stories!

Happy New Year Proustians!

Elizabeth wrote: "No, Kalliope, I have not read everything. A LOT, though! But only things I like--or can find. I used to have a graphic novel of Tristram Shandy...it was hilarious (featuring Uncle Toby as a der..."

Just take the compliment Elizabeth!

This is what Proust withdrawal looks like. I'm in here compiling statistics of the comment history of the people who posted in the very last week's thread. Counting backwards, they are:

Reem 988
Martin 105
Kalliope 2909
Eugene 479/ Eugene 107
Jocelyne 745
Fionnuala 1124
Marcus 143
Marcelita 1111
Karen 317
Kate 17
Ce Ce 617
Phillida 159
Book Portrait 334

1st place: Kalliope
2nd place: Fionnuala
3rd place: Marcelita

Martin wrote: "I thought that I would be elated to have finally finished the Search; instead I, like Eugene and others, find myself slightly heartsick to close this chapter and this book. Although I've told mysel..."

It's very difficult coming to a complete stop after reading Proust all year. There will be severe withdrawal.






Take two pills and reread Proust in the morning.



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Elizabeth wrote: "Well, I happened to pick up Vol. II of the 1934 Moncrieff edition (which was in two humongous volumns) and there was "Sodom and Gomorrah." As a sexually curious ten year old, I was drawn right in!..."

Interesting. Be sure to plant some hawthorn bushes! I meant to do so this year but never did. We do have a lot of pear trees, so spring will give me my Proustian moment. :)

Elizabeth wrote: "Reem: hope your brain is OK."

My brain on Proust. I'm fine Elizabeth, thank you for asking. Diagnosis: migraines, but they didn't stop me from reading ISOLT!!! : Very impressive Elizabeth that you started to read Proust at age 10!