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Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.
“I was poised on its dizzy summit,”
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“And so it goes...”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly lifted towards the silent peaks of memory.”
― Time Regained
― Time Regained
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
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“And, without question, all those different planes, upon which Time, since I had regained it at this reception, had exhibited my life, by reminding me that in a book which gave the history of one, it would be necessary to make use of a sort of spatial psychology as opposed to the usual flat psychology, added a new beauty to the resurrections my memory was operating during my solitary reflections in the library, since memory, by introducing the past into the present without modification, as though it were the present, eliminates precisely that great Time-dimension in accordance with which life is realised.”
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Reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time in 2014
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A reading group for Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time". This group reading adventure will begin on January 1, 2014 and go on through December ...more
One Year In Search of Lost Time ~ 2015
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2017: Our Year of Reading Proust
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2018: Our Year of Reading Proust
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Join us to read Marcel Proust in 2018! Beginners or experts- all are welcome. In Search of Lost Time, from 1.1.18 to 12.31.18 . We can do this! If ...more
Odysseus to Ulysses
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This group will be reading first Homer's The Odyssey, for which we plan to take around two months, and then James Joyce's Ulysses, which may take abou ...more
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