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Aug 24, 2012
Karen Michele Burns
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At long last, I have read Proust! I finished Swann's Way this afternoon occasionally gazing out at the Japanese maple outside my window and reading beautiful descriptions of autumn feeling as if I was in Paris:
...at a place where the trees were still covered in all their green leaves, one alone, small, squat, lopped, obstinate, shook in the wind a homely head of red hair...Here, it thickened the leaves of the chestnut trees like bricks and, like a piece of yellow Persian masonry patterned in blu ...more
...at a place where the trees were still covered in all their green leaves, one alone, small, squat, lopped, obstinate, shook in the wind a homely head of red hair...Here, it thickened the leaves of the chestnut trees like bricks and, like a piece of yellow Persian masonry patterned in blu ...more
Jan 30, 2012
Susan
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Nov 13, 2015
Candi
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Sarah
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Ian Anderson
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