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Rachel
Can I throw a book like a football while screaming BOOM?!? Let 2017 begin! Happy New Year!

*Perhaps I will have something smarter than a football metaphor after I process for a few minutes...

See, already...part of me wants to turn around and start this all up again, looking up all the references, trying to find out what autobiographical influences it contains...and part of me wants to take these two gigantic books outside and leave them in the snow. I think it definitely had an impact on my back
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Antonio Gallo
"Un'ora non è soltanto un'ora. E' un vaso ricolmo di profumi, suoni, piani, climi. Quel che chiamiamo realtà è una certa relazione tra codeste sensazioni e le memorie che nello stesso istante ci circondano ..."

Così scrive Proust all'inizio del secondo volume della sua ricerca. Questo libro quindi non ha una struttura cronologica, non può averla perchè il tempo, contrariamente a quanto crediamo, non è cronologico bensì circolare. A mio parere a spirale. Inizia avvolgendosi su se stesso alla nasc
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Sherry
Mar 31, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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plodding but brilliant from a distance.
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