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

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

Another one:

"This moral dimension is one of the distinctive characteristics of human art. The feelings it produces are reactions not merely to what we find desirable or undesirable but to ideas that make certain claims about what is right or wrong, good or evil, beautiful or grotesque. Put another way, great works of art not only show accomplished technical skill and “emotional saturation” but provide nuanced embodiments of universal human truths, such as our preference for love over hate, or justice over injustice."

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publica...

I feel that Proust would approve.

Eugene wrote:
But she was incapable of understanding what I had looked for in her—the charm of her historic name—...

Eugene, what page is this?

Kalliope wrote:
Yes, the lace mantilla with the peineta..

Stunning! These need to be pinned!
Came to share this:

"The novelist and the cosmologist are engaged in similar pursuits. Literature doesn’t depict, it observes. It observes a reality that it conjures into existence by observing it, just like, well, like Schrödinger’s goddamn cat."

http://www.themorningnews.org/article...

Kalliope, you and I don't need wigs. We'll go ethnic. You in a gorgeous Spanish lace mantilla veil, and me in mw Palestinian headdress in my avatar.Sound good?

Ce Ce wrote: "Stunning Reem...

I'm in!

I'll bring the Viennoiserie! ;-)"

LOL,LOL,LOL at you and Jocelyne!

Marcelita wrote: "Kalliope wrote: "Jocelyne wrote: ".THanks Reem, this is such a fantastic board. "

We may have to start a group, the Proust-Loungers, when this group read finishes at the end of the year...!!
:)"
Y..."

How about: Le Beauvais Salon de Proust

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia...

Kalliope wrote: "Jocelyne wrote: ".THanks Reem, this is such a fantastic board. "

We may have to start a group, the Proust-Loungers, when this group read finishes at the end of the year...!!

:)"

Excellent idea!

Very interesting Aloha.There must have been some jealousy involved.

This looks like a must see:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06...

Patricia wrote: I certainly do not "wax enthusiastically" as Mrs Bruddenbrok apparently did.It hurts and burns ,one day i'll have all the hairs on my legs lasered off."

LOL

Patricia wrote:Most amazing Borges pict.taking a leak standning up! That must've been quite a feat ,the guy was BLIND! at least we heard no comments from the janitor in B.A.Arg.

looool you always make me laugh Patricia! I'm so glad that you are enjoying your vacation with your daughter!! Don't get sunburned! Florida burns can be so painful. I swear by this if you do get burned: Solarcaine First Aid Medicated Spray

It's nice that everyone is checking back in the lounge. Many of you are still missing! Drop by and say hello.

Jocelyne wrote: "ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "Jocelyne wrote: "My dear Proustian fans,

I missed you, my dear friends. I am just back from a trip to Java and Bali. I thought this year should be the year of big mas..."

Jocelyne, It's a pleasure to have you back with us
again! Here is Marcelita's pinterest:

http://pinterest.com/marcelitaswann/

Kalliope wrote: "When the Narrator gets to Mme de Villeparisis's house and is late and has to wait in another room, he sits in a "bergère", an armchair with a lovely and evocative name.

These armchairs come in m..."

Thanks Kalliope, it's always great to have a visual. That is funny. I'm beginning to think that the narrator has issues of intimacy. Any time the woman that he is infatuated with becomes interested in him, he retreats.

Aloha wrote: I don't really have any other vice but a compulsion to ingest information, so I'm going to give in to it.

Give in to it! Relish it! Let it nurture your soul! You'll be the better for it!

Aloha wrote: "Thank you, Reem. Reaching out for information, visually or otherwise, fuels our creativity. I make great mental connections that way, from things I've seen or read. Proust and Picasso both devel..."

That's so true, but don't you find that sometimes you can't bottle enough? That you keep needing to take in more and more stimuli.

Aloha wrote: "Anyhoo, enough on that. I have a tendency to let my enthusiasm spill over wherever I am."

Nothing wrong with that Aloha. I read a line in Buddenbrooks that I considered as a name for any potential tumblr title. "She waxed enthusiastic."
Isn't that what it's all about, our joy and enthusiasm growing as we reflect on all the words and images?! I only know of Marcelita's and your pinterest. We may die of information overload in this internet era, too many things to look at and read that it is a wonder that we get any reading bookwise in any more. And of course our memory is shot! No point of even bookmarking anymore, because you can't ever find anything in that list. I love how you use your pinterest to fuel your creativity!Kalliope you must create your own pinterest and/or tumblr! As should so many people here!!

Proustitute's tumblr is on his twitter account. I am not on tumblr, but I am considering perhaps (one day) starting one. I can spend hours reading quotes, looking at photos, paintings, etc. P has a great selection that resonates with me. There is another tumblr that I also really like: http://blushisthecourt.tumblr.com/?re...

She followed me, then dropped me, but I got to discover her work! I check her tumblr all the time as well.If anyone knows of any other interesting tumblrs, please do point them out to me.

Aloha wrote: "Looks like we'll lose you to Pinterest, Reem. LOL. I've fleshed out my boards within a short time. It's a great way to plan and be inspired visually. I had an epiphany while working on my porta..."

LOL you're right. I finished looking at Marcelita's pinterest and was just looking at yours!

Regarding: http://pinterest.com/thoa817/stairway... it reminded me of

reading this on Proustitute's tumblr which I just love to read that goes well with your pinterest on spirals and reminded me as well of Kalliope's avatar.

"The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, unwound, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free."
— Vladimir Nabokov, from Speak, Memory

Kalliope wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "ReemK10 says:"although a corset may help cinch in that waist." When the first Xtian missionaries went to China, late 18th/early 19th century, they were horrified at the custom of..."

Ouch Kalliope! That must have hurt. I have no idea how women wear those 6-inch heels. Luckily, I'm tall and have no need to, nor would I if I could walk around in them which I can't. High heels are also capable of creating foot deformities.

Marcelita wrote: "Kalliope wrote: "Marcelita wrote: "ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: ""And so the sham men of letters, the pseudo-intellectuals whom Mlle d'Argencourt entertained, picturing Oriane de Guermantes, whom t..."

These are fantastic Marcelita! I really like Sir Richard Burton's illustrations.

Aloha wrote: "http://pinterest.com/thoa817/

I haven't uploaded my photo work, so my personal board is skimpy. But there are tons of stuff in my profile that's not mine."

Wow! thanks for sharing. This looks like a great site to spend some time.