The thing to do with Proust is, erm, sort of read it. I'd agree about the
boring bits, they are long too, but it makes amend with the rises, I'll
never think about a grandmother going to a latrine while having as stroke
but trying to pretend to little Marcel that wasn't happening in the same way
again (not that I thought about it in any way before, but it's great
writing)
Best
Dave
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From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: Snap/3-15-06--"The God Thing"
> 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/
>
>
>
>
> > D&D - dungeons and dragons perhaps?
> >
> > I've never got through big Milton (tho I like the sonnets). Just as
> > I've never got through Proust. Not for want of a go. Perhaps now I'm a
> > big girl i should try ... slowly, as suggested.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jill
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, March 21, 2006, at 07:54 AM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> >
> >> Much as I repect Johnson, Radi OS is for me a painful read, something
> >> like clifnotes, but with enough of the original to remind me at every
> >> moment of what's missing.
> >>
> >> Miton is best read, I think, at the rate of about a hundred lines a
> >> day, aloud. Aloud, because he's one of the great musicians of the
> >> language, and in such small portions because of the enormous density
> >> of event.
> >>
> >> Olson apparently hated Milton, warned his disciples to keep away from
> >> M. Presumably because they were so much alike.
> >>
> >> What does D&D sci-fi mean?
> >>
> >
> > _______________________________________________________
> > Jill Jones
> >
> > Latest books:
> > Broken/Open. Available from Salt Publishing
> > http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/1844710416.htm
> >
> > Where the Sea Burns. Wagtail Series. Picaro Press
> > PO Box 853, Warners Bay, NSW, 2282. [log in to unmask]
> >
> > Struggle and radiance: ten commentaries (Wild Honey Press)
> > http://www.wildhoneypress.com
> >
> > web site: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~jpjones
> > blog1: Ruby Street http://rubystreet.blogspot.com/
> > blog2: Latitudes http://itudes.blogspot.com/
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