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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I'm reading the Lydia Davis translation but the comic book version also sounded interesting. It arrived today. Huh. I thought the narrator vacationed in Balbec, not West Egg.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:This is Botticelli's Zipporah: The first time I read Swann's Way about five years ago, I had never seen this painting, and still hadn't until you posted it just now. Yet Proust's description was evocative enough that this was almost exactly what came to mind when I read the passage back then.
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Aug 18, 2021 14:51
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I forgot how terrible the Verdurins were. They're just the absolute worst garbage people.
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Aug 21, 2021 15:28
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Maybe part of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon? The whole thing would be out of the question, I'm sure; the whole thing is almost 2,500 pages long.
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Aug 27, 2021 02:48
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ulvir posted:idk how long into it you guys are yet, but one of the moments from the first book that’s still pretty present in my memory, is the scene where the narrator introduces Bloch to his parents. that, along with his grandmother lowkey roasting him in the next volume (either that or volume 3) is pretty funny Volume two is hilarious. It fills one with the pure joy of watching a dumbass teenager constantly scoring own-goals.
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