“I was dreaming of that day when you came my way The smell of mangos, that impatient side-glance of yours You took my hand Pulled me inside the covered entrance to that palace Time stopped A l… more →
Designldg by Laurent GJim Everett wrote 3 days ago: The problem with a roman a clef reading of any novel is that when you identify the real life model o … more →
ianheath653 wrote 1 week ago: I shudder to think about what Marcel Proust might have done if he’d had access to a camera pho … more →
Jim Everett wrote 1 week ago: Literary mash-ups are hot now, following the publication of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and I d … more →
Brad Nixon wrote 2 weeks ago: One of the motivations – in addition to the flapping sound from those wings on time’s ir … more →
Jim Everett wrote 3 weeks ago: Proust Among the Stars Malcolm Bowie, Columbia University Press, New York, 1998 I took a break from … more →
Duncan wrote 3 weeks ago: I’ve noticed a rising trend: online book clubs. My first real sight of it was Infinite Summer, … more →
The Anonymous Pick Twister wrote 1 month ago: Ahh, growin’ up. One of the most difficult things about watching the years tick by is the real … more →
flabbybrain wrote 1 month ago: I have been extraordinarily tired this week. I love to read Proust when I’m tired. Who is Proust? yo … more →
Biblioklept wrote 2 months ago: In his introduction to his reader’s guide to Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Patrick Al … more →
matthewgraybosch wrote 3 months ago: The idea that one’s library is one’s portrait has been making the rounds in a couple of … more →
Jess wrote 3 months ago: Score. I found a two-volume set of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time for only $15. I … more →
er216 wrote 3 months ago: Rarely do I read through a page without re-reading it at least once. Most pages additionally contai … more →
isaure wrote 4 months ago: by Isaure Cointreau Summer is here and although we all want to spread our wings towards the coast, s … more →
tuulenhaiven wrote 6 months ago: I had the extreme good fortune the other day of being allowed to borrow books from a very fastidious … more →
kissthenightair wrote 6 months ago: Or how many tweets would the volumes take? (In Defense of Distraction, Sam Anderson.) The prophets o … more →
Sineokov wrote 6 months ago: The people who are least capable of judging the worth of individuals are also the most inclined to a … more →
Sineokov wrote 6 months ago: “Be honest, my friend, you yourself once propounded a theory to me about things existing only … more →
Sineokov wrote 6 months ago: For the novel reality of a danger is perceived only through the medium of that new thing, not assimi … more →
Sineokov wrote 6 months ago: No doubt, my idleness having given me the habit, when it was a question of my work, of putting it of … more →