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

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

Martin wrote: "Marcel Proust wrote: "... and writers are a pretty low class."

And: "On the whole, though, the wisest thing is to stick to dead authors."

Yet our favorite Narrator is himself an aspiring writer ..."


I also find it hard to fit in new authors when there are so many of the great authors waiting to be read.

Perhaps along the lines of this idea :

"Online browsing, by comparison, places new titles alongside other new titles in similar genres — the idea being that if you like this, you’ll also like more of the same." via http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/boo...

A perfect solution would be to put the new title next to a classic. This mixing of the old with a similar style from the new and would be rather appealing to the reader.

Phillida wrote: "ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "Phillida wrote: "Valerie wrote: As for me not being really part of the group, I've read every single post here, and if I don't comment much, it's because I don't feel ..."

Rk10 sounds like R2D2, please call me Reem :)I do remember you Phillida. You know what these threads need is the ability to click like on a comment. So many times, we like what we read but find that we have nothing more to add. Here's to seeing you and everyone else post more often!

Marcelita wrote: "A birthday celebration may need....
a proper invitation
a venue for 1529 Proustians
a table setting(s)
a horticulture sensory experience
a menu with food and wine
a musical interlude
a fireworks ..."

We need to start a new thread for all of this!

Kyle wrote: "ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "@Kyle, I hope you're not feeling melancholic. It's summer time! Let's celebrate!! "

Haha! I guess I am, a little bit. Consider your advice taken! :)"

:) Take care of you!! These are for you Kyle:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wssdJM5hSkI...

Elizabeth wrote: "Now on the the Turkish Ambassadress. Reemk10, I think your explanation re Mrs. Arthur Hanson is the best one ever. If the T.A. were the wife of the Turkish Ambassador, wldnt the Old Man be with her?"

Elizabeth, I was thinking more along the lines of this lady as the Turkish ambassadress. Lady Layard:
http://www.cornucopia.net/blog/lady-l...

Phillida wrote: "Valerie wrote: As for me not being really part of the group, I've read every single post here, and if I don't comment much, it's because I don't feel particularly welcome since every comment I make..."

Everyone is welcome to take part. Please do not feel left out. I'm sure that none of us intend for participation in the threads to be cliquish. It is true however that those of us who are regulars, and have spent more time interacting with one another have developed great comraderie, but this is a group of 1,500 or so, and Proustitute would want everyone to feel welcome! Post away!I think one problem is that many of our hosts are not taking as much part in the discussions as they did at the start, perhaps figuring that we have found our way around the threads, and that newcomers would benefit from being welcomed by more hosts. We can also do our part to make everyone feel at home. I'm sure that this will be duly noted by all of us.

Elizabeth wrote: "Now on the the Turkish Ambassadress. Reemk10, I think your explanation re Mrs. Arthur Hanson is the best one ever. If the T.A. were the wife of the Turkish Ambassador, wldnt the Old Man be with her?"

Thanks Elizabeth although I don't know. It is a bit confusing because the Turkish ambassadress says," If I were a man," she went on, with a trace of oriental servility and sensuality,"I would give my life for that heavenly creature." (MKE 80)Then Proust goes on to write that the ambassadress "crowded her course into a few months instead of a few months of instead of working her way gradually." (MKE 81)

It could be an Englishwoman who spent so much time in Turkey that she adopted oriental habits.

Jocelyne wrote: It is astounding how you manage to retrieve these quotes. I underline and highlight so much stuff that it becomes impossible to find anything when I need it!

I do the same. Sometimes, it' just easier to do a new search.

@Kyle, I hope you're not feeling melancholic. It's summer time! Let's celebrate!!

Marcelita wrote: "Looking forward to Proust's 142nd birthday, on July 10th.

"On July 10, his thirtieth birthday, Marcel called on (León) Yeatman in his law office and announced: 'Today I'm thirty years old, and I..."

We need a separate thread to celebrate Proust's birthday!!! Marcelita, I don't know if you've ever seen this.
"In a Paris hotel in 1922, two society hosts brought off an amazing coup when they threw a party for Proust, Joyce, Diaghilev, Stravinsky and Picasso."

http://nursemyra.wordpress.com/2011/0...

Looks so delicious!!

http://gliving.com/mint-ice-cream-san...

Valerie wrote:
No, I do not. And I'd thank you to refrain from such accusations.

I replied to your private message. I'm just going to let it go here.

@Jack didn't you have a comment here about Small Demons? I can't seem to find it. I'm not really sure how I found this site, but if you have a favorite author, or a favorite book, it's quite fun to do a search and see who refers to it in other books. I had to smile at the comment that you don't like to read other opinions so they don't interfere with yours. Ha! lol

Eugene wrote: "ReemK10 wrote: Okay, it looks like I'm always going to be involved in some sort of brawl...

I love it, a Goodreads "brawl", I commend you for your word choice...it has kept me smiling all day."

:)

Elizabeth wrote: "Natacha, the "trace of oriental servility and sensuality,..." is an interesting comment, as is the loony Turkish Ambassadress herself (I mean, really; a Moslem country having a female diplomat in c..."

I couldn't find anything about a Turkish ambassadress, but I did find this lady who Proust may have been referring to:

Lady Layard's Centenary, 1 November 2012. David Barchard pays tribute to Enid Guest, ambassadress to Istanbul

http://www.theisispress.org/lady_laya...

In June, 1888, Mrs. Arthur Hanson, whom I had known and admired when in Constantinople, asked me to interest myself in the work, and see what I could do in France.

I showed our embroideries to the heads of various large firms in Paris. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/wome...


As an ambassadress to Constantinople, perhaps Proust was referring to her as the Turkish Ambassadress.

Marcelita wrote: It's still unbelievable to see every stroke...of Proust's pen.


I agree. I wonder if he enjoyed the process of editing, polishing and refining each passage, or if he felt tortured that it just wasn't coming out right.

Valerie wrote: "As for me not being really part of the group, I've read every single post here, and if I don't comment much, it's because I don't feel particularly welcome since every comment I make is ignored."

Honest to goodness I signed on this morning to be more understanding of what life must be like for you as a queer, even though I really don't understand how that word appeals to you, but to each his own, her own. I was annoyed with you yesterday for misinterpreting my comment, and you very definitely got under my skin, but then I checked your twitter as I see you often on #Proust2013 and saw a comment that made me sympathize with you and made me try to see what life must be like for you, and it occurs to me that people must have said rather unpleasant things to you in the past. However, I believe that you are also responsible for the way you react. This post that I am replying to makes me feel that you go through life as a victim, feeling ignored, insignificant even though you have worked your tail off to get your PHD. Congrats for that! I don't know if your approach is a healthy one. I'm positive that no one is deleting any of your comments. Why would it be done only to you? That makes no sense, but it shows your train of thought as you also feel unwelcome in this most welcoming of groups.

I accept your apology and thank you for it because I hate to hold on to any negativity which becomes quite toxic for me as I have a tendency to ruminate and then descend into a downward spiral. I understand emotional pain, and I sympathize with you for feeling the way you do, I also believe that you need to just be your natural self and not let others dictate how you feel about yourself. As a writer and literature professor, and I'm sure we have many of those in our group, you should want to take part and share your knowledge with us. That is the entire purpose of this reading as a group! We are not competitive in our posts, but add layer upon layer for understanding. Put your angst behind you and just post away. I remember feeling very intimidated in this rather academic group when I posted a comment and no one commented in the very early stages, but then you realize not every comment requires an answer. They are read and absorbed, and may be commented upon later in the threads. Just relax, don't be on the defensive and have fun. We are a most welcoming group of Proustians!

Valerie wrote: "I'm not entirely sure what is meant by this, but I think it might help when planning whatever "hurtful comments" people might intend to make that there are homosexuals (or queers, as I prefer)..."

Okay, it looks like I'm always going to be involved in some sort of brawl with regard to what was the word you preferred, the topic of queers. How you interpreted that one would plan to make hurtful comments is beyond me! Why would anyone in such a friendly, warm group want to do so strikes me as very strange. Maybe because you rarely take part, you haven't picked up on the warm vibes of community we have in here. So much so that we intend to keep our friendships going after the year ends. The point that I was trying to make was that we may unconsciously do make a comment that may hurt someone, knowing that every single one of us would do our best to choose our words carefully, wisely, diplomatically whateverly, that we not be afraid to talk about anything in this volume. We would of course not want to hurt anyone!!!!

I think both you and Marcelita are sensual in the way you absorb your surroundings. Much like our Proust. Jocelyne, even I have a hard time moving the mouse on the Small Demons page. Move your arrows downward to move the page as opposed to the mouse on the side of the page.

Here is the site: https://www.smalldemons.com/
Do your own searches.

By the way, I didn't know that you had your own blog! You should have told us! You're much too modest dear Jocelyne!
It's good that your husband dreams of the beach, it makes for more vacations! Cheers :)

Jocelyne wrote: I don't think it hurts to post things a second time because a lot of us may not always catch them the first time around.

That's good because I mentioned Small Demons ages ago, and restlessness got me to go do a search. Have a look. It's a good research guide.


Sodom and Gomorrah https://www.smalldemons.com/books/In_...

The Guermantes Way
https://www.smalldemons.com/books/In_...

Within a Budding Grove
https://www.smalldemons.com/books/In_...

Swann's Way
https://www.smalldemons.com/books/Swa...


I won't do a search on the other volumes until we get to them.

The Monet painting is lovely! If I was sitting at your husband's desk, I'd be daydreaming all day about going for a walk on the beach.

"How wonder works" -To all of us who read Proust with wonder:

I was just rereading this article and couldn't remember if I had shared it with you all.

"One emotion inspired our greatest achievements in science, art and religion. We can manipulate it – but why do we have it?"

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/oceanic-f...

Eugene wrote: "Reem wrote: "For one thing this Don Quixote had tilted against so many windmills..."(MKE 72) What does this expression mean?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilting_..."

Thanks Eugene, that's a super cool idiom that I hope to put to use! I haven't read Don Quixote, yet! In a minute there is time...

@Iselin, I wasn't sure as it says, " It could be seen from a distance, slender, motionless, rigid, set apart in a clearing surrounded by fine trees, several of which were as old as itself, only the lighter fall of its pale and quivering plume stirring in the breeze." (MKE 75)

We'll have to wait for the Priestess of Proust to verify which one. ;)