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

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

Also interesting is Proust's mention of birds:


"I broke off to admire and point to Albertine a great, solitary, speeding bird which, far out in front of us, lashing the air with the regular beat of its wings flew at full speed over he beach, which was stained here and there with gleaming reflexions like little torn scraps of red paper, and crossed it from end to end without slackening its pace, without diverting its attention, without deviating from its path, like an envoy carrying far afield an urgent and vital message." ( MKE 311)

Fort those readers who like birds, this may be of interest to you: Wings of desire: why birds captivate us

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013...

Is there other mention of birds in ISOLT?

I came across the following:

"I shall drown myself. I shall throw myself into the sea." "Like Sapho.""There you go insulting me again. You suspect not only what I say but what I do." "But my lamb, I didn't mean anything I swear to you. You know Sapho threw herself into the sea." (MKE272)

Not knowing who Sapho is, I looked her up and found this:


"Sappho's lifetime witnessed a period of political turbulence on Lesbos and saw the rise of Pittacus."

I believe mention of Saphos is relevant to our understanding of this section of Sodom and Gomorrah.

"Sappho's poetry centers on passion and love for various people and both sexes. The word lesbian derives from the name of the island of her birth, Lesbos, while her name is also the origin of the word sapphic; neither word was applied to female homosexuality until the 19th century.[20][21] The narrators of many of her poems speak of infatuations and love (sometimes requited, sometimes not) for various females, but descriptions of physical acts between women are few and subject to debate.[22][23] Whether these poems are meant to be autobiographical is not known, although elements of other parts of Sappho's life do make appearances in her work, and it would be compatible with her st)yle to have these intimate encounters expressed poetically, as well. Her homoerotica should be placed in the context of the 7th century (BCE). The poems of Alcaeus and later Pindar record similar romantic bonds between the members of a given circle.[24]
" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho

Cont'd:

"In denying it of every guilty woman, I was not far from contending that sapphism did not exist." (MKE 325)

I'd never heard of the word sapphism before. Sapphism=lesbianism. I wonder why the term is not commonly used.

Kalliope wrote: ""




Merci to having you all in my life! You truly are a wonderful group of people!! I am enjoying reading with you all. I've caught up on last week's reading, not the threads though, and still have this week's to read. Hopefully by Sunday night!

Kalliope wrote: ""



Merci to having you all in my life!This is truly a wonderful group of people! I've caught up on last week's reading. This week's to go. Hopefully by tomorrow.

Marcelita wrote: "I found that this seems to work...with some jpg files on my iPad.
Put your file between these two codes-no spaces.

img src="

" /

Example:
img src="COPYYOURPICTUREFILEHERE" /

Then, bracket with..."

okay, now I can see your photo.
Let me try again:



Much easier this way! THANK YOU!!!!! You too, Kalliope. Now, I have to write this down.

Jocelyne, try it out. It's not hard to do.



:) cute photo!

Marcelita wrote: "I found that this seems to work...with a jpg file on my iPad.
Put your file between these two codes-no spaces.
The only spaces are before src=" and /

Nope, not happening, but thanks anyway Marcelita. By the way, I can't see your images either, just those squares.






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Kalliope wrote: "ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "That's reassuring. lol
..."

Reem, from the (some html is ok) you can get what you need in the bracketing of an image.

then the key is the URL link.. in a PC this is ..."

Thank you Kalliope! If Proust can take on the telephone, I can take on this technology.

Dead Technology Commentators: Novelist Marcel Proust Takes On the Telephone


http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciarabyrn...

Let's see if it works:


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I just see a square. Not working. What do I do with the info for image in some html is ok?

Ce Ce wrote: A quiet yay...it's paid off. I just finished "The Guermantes Way" this morning. Only a few hours past my goal. I had wanted to complete by last night, July 31st.

Good for you Ce Ce!!!! Didn't you just love the final scene and of course the black shoes with the red dress?!

I think you may finish S&G before me now!

Kalliope wrote: "Good. A PC is much much easier for posting photos thanks to the right button in the mouse."

That's reassuring. lol

If I could sign off this computer, I might actually have a chance at reading Proust on time. This online reading has truly become an addiction.

Kalliope wrote: "ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "Kalliope wrote: "No, it was me but Marcelita has been posting photos already. She recently put the two tomatoes in the Threads."

I haven't been reading the threads un..."

A PC, thanks Kalliope, whenever you have time.

Longer post, how difficult is it?!

Kalliope wrote: "No, it was me but Marcelita has been posting photos already. She recently put the two tomatoes in the Threads."

I haven't been reading the threads until I catch up on my reading. Bravo to Marcelita for learning how to do so and thank you for teaching her, now teach me please!!!

So nice to see people active in the lounge again. You're a delightful group of people, and I do so enjoy your company!!

I believe that our Marcelita is patiently waiting on someone, anyone to show her how to post photos in here, instead of links. I've also been waiting on that information. And if whomever is going to supply us with that info, if you would be so kind as to present it in language that does not require us to be techno savy, that would be very kind of you. Where is Jeremy? Wasn't he the one who helped us out with these kinds of problems? Jeremyyyyyyyyyyyyy..... or was it Jason? Jasonnnnnnnn

PATRICIA!!!! Welcome back! We've missed you!! I hope you had a great time Miamizing on your vacation with your family. I'm sure you make for a fun, fabulous grandmother! I don't know what Proust would do with a woman like you.

These flowers are for you hun:

http://www.handmakerofthings.com/.a/6...

I wanted them to be as colorful as your personality!!!

Fionnuala wrote: "Ce Ce wrote: "..Arrived home late last night. Caught up with the threads this morning...up until June 16th (where I am in my reading). I love what each of you brings to our reading and discussion....."

Good to have you both back. Ce Ce, good for you for making progress in your reading and good luck with the rest of the renovation. Same to you Fionnuala. My bordeaux granite countertops are being installed right now, and they look gorgeous!! Does Proust have any connection to Bordeaux by any chance? That would make my new counters a madeleine reminder for this year of reading Proust together. Love the new look! I am a week behind in my reading, and must make time to catch up.

Kalliope wrote: "Ce Ce wrote: "ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "I also came across this:The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust :
A Critical Study of Remembrance of Things Past that also looks good.

http://pauldrybooks...."

So glad you liked the links. I think that I too will wait to finish the year's reading of ISOLT and then look to read the secondary reads. Maybe we can do so together.

I also came across this:The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust :
A Critical Study of Remembrance of Things Past that also looks good.



http://pauldrybooks.com/mm5/merchant....

""Remembrance of Things Past is more than a novel; it is a work in which a single person's life is transformed into a mythology, with its own pantheon of gods, its own religious rituals, and its own moral laws. A total vision, it does not rely on any system outside itself for support. It is as if Dante had set out to write the Paradiso and the Inferno utilizing only the facts of his own existence without any reference to Christianity...Other novelists describe or invent worlds. Remembrance of Things Past is an entire universe created and interpreted by Marcel Proust." — from Chapter 1

"Moss lays out the sweeping claims and overarching structure of Remembrance of Things Past—the significance of Swann's Way and the Guermantes Way, or why there are such long party scenes—and is equally good at bringing to light all sorts of tiny, revealing details." — from the new Foreword by Damion Searls"

Now, isn't that quite the teaser?!

Has anyone read Fields of Light by Paul Dry before?

http://pauldrybooks.com/mm5/merchant....

" The ideal reader of the chapters that follow will stop to read a poem more than once, or come back to a chapter a second time after he has reread the novel or play that is being discussed."
http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/07/on...

Sounds like this group's style of reading in the year of reading Proust.

"Above all he will not forget that he is making an experiment, that he is learning to do something, rather than passively viewing a series of more or less revolutionary interpretations on which he is to vote “yes” or “no.”

"Practice in defining the meanings of words in literature is an “instrument of a liberal culture” [Leo Stein] since it is practice in making discriminations. Practice in discovering the “masses of implications” [Le Corbusier] in a work of literary art is practice in finding relationships, in finding order in experience. These are among the primary activities of civilized men."

"I look in awe at her copy of Manet's A Bunch of Asparagus, the painting for which critic-collector Ephrussi overpaid 200 francs. The original is in Cologne's Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. If you wanted your own copy, you could order an oil painting from an online supplier for $214.20. I couldn't vouch for its quality. Or you could have the copy hanging in Ray's gallery in a rather lovely frame for £3,900."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesig...

Jack wrote: "I'm wondering: how many girls here love Proust because they think he's a cute, cuddly baby who needs to be suckled?"

So Proust had us at "Longtemps je me suis couché de bonne heure" and we've been lactating every since? Is that what you think? Really Jack? What have they been putting in the water down there in Austin?

Good answer Fionnuala.

Kalliope wrote: "Yes, one of the purposes of my last trip was precisely to put that rose in that place.@Marcelita. I am glad you noticed the reflection of the tree (it makes one think of his three trees)"

Kalliope, can you elaborate more on the significance of the trees that made you want to place your rose in that particular spot?