Hi Stephen,
I suspect you are right about proust. A dedicated group. I have not
that time at the moment. I got part way by my own self.
And I wasn't thinking of 'god' when I mentioned it, just scope, dare I
say, length. (Oh dear, I could see that may lead in unwanted
directions.)
Cheers,
Jill
On Tuesday, March 21, 2006, at 09:29 AM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Proust - in my impatient experiene - goes best with a group, Jill. It
> took
> four of us two years to read 3,500 or so pages in English, meeting
> once a
> month. (Some parts of books can get boringly hard). Yet, I would say
> it is
> the epic of the 20th century (social, politics, aesthetics, romance,
> incredible drop dead Moliere humor) - yes, a life changer - any social
> context I have ever been in since has never been the same.
> I guess that's a plug! And, no, I would not say Proust was at all into
> the
> God thing in any doctrinaire or conventional sense.
>
> Stephen V
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
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