Week ending 07/05: Sodom and Gomorrah, to page 82 / location 27835

[Dave]

Jonathan wrote: "I'm just re-reading the opening scenes of the party and I'm amused by the narrator's snooty attitude towards Prof. E:...for nobody of his sort had ever been seen before or was ever to be seen again..."

This is an aspect that makes the parties so interesting to me. Face to face folks are polite and sometimes even fawning, then they walk away (or think in the case of the narrator) and become judgmental and catty. Totally consistent with social gatherings I've experienced all my life.

[Jonathan]

Renato wrote: "I sure did!"

Dave wrote: "Yes, I did also."

Good! I'm not just imagining things then. :-)

I'm surprised that M. Vaugoubert is quite blatantly checking out the young men with Charlus at the party, given that he's in constant fear of being outed. I guess they're talking obscurely enough for the others not to know what they're actually doing.

[Dave]

I think the point is that now that the narrator's consciousness has been raised by his observation of Charlus and Jupien, he notices a whole new "level" of interaction between characters he failed to observe before.

[Renato]

Yep, that's how I took it as well, Dave.

[Dave]

Its nice to have at least the tree of us "on"at the same time. Enjoyed this exchange. I've got to go get ready to go to my local book club monthly meeting. Today I'm talking about ISOLT, whether the rest of them like it or not! lol

[Renato]

Hahaha! You tell 'em, Dave! :)

[Jonathan]

Dave wrote: "Its nice to have at least the tree of us "on"at the same time. Enjoyed this exchange. I've got to go get ready to go to my local book club monthly meeting. Today I'm talking about ISOLT, whether th..."

You could read them the 'long sentence'!

[Dave]

They humored me and my "everything you need to know about ISOLT in 5 minutes" presentation.

[Jonathan]

Dave wrote: "They humored me and my "everything you need to know about ISOLT in 5 minutes" presentation."

Was that like the Monty Python Summarise Proust Competition.?

[Dave]

I've heard about that but never watched it. I love Monty Python and bet it will be even funnier having read Proust's novel.

[Jonathan]

Dave wrote: "I've heard about that but never watched it. I love Monty Python and bet it will be even funnier having read Proust's novel."

None of the contestants get past the first volume so there are no spoilers :-) The link takes you to YouTube.

[Renato]

Haha, just watched it! I love Monty Python! Didn't know this existed. Thanks, Jonathan!

[Dave]

I just watched it! Hilarious, but I couldn't understand much because they were talking/singing so fast. Is there a text of the script? Don't look it up, I can search for it on Google.