There's a bit in ISOLT where Proust is plagued by the fear that he had talent at some point, but he didn't nurture it (out of fear + insecurity), and now he's squandered it. Which is funny because girl you're Marcel Proust. And I certainly am not. But that did kinda happen to me.

A library colleague told me they cheat the system by overriding patrons' holds so they can get the hot new releases first and it's killing me bc they work in youth services and mostly read middle grade and YA 😭😭😭 Doing library insider trading to beat the local 12-year-olds...

Art geared towards being comforting is probably ontologically evil and on a related note we need more ambient music dedicated to enhacing anxiety rather than alleviating it.

"I am, it seems (from a medical perspective), lots of different things, although in truth no one has ever really known what."

—Marcel Proust, unsent letter to doctor regarding whether he should see a psychotherapist, quoted in Marcel Proust by Adam Watt (he's just like me...)

Much has been made of the spectre of Trump hastening the liberal rehabilitation of George Bush but also Trump's linguistic innovations get so much attention that younger people are totally unaware of Bush's. I think we agree, the past is over...

Some argue that the category of world music is inherently colonial in nature but consider this: my library puts Serge Gainsbourg cds in that section and it makes me lol

PSA – The Queens Public Library offers $50 virtual library cards and it’s amazing for anyone who uses Libby and want to access more titles/copies than your local library has

Oh God oh fuck

Serge gainsbourg lookalike contest in my bedroom

Shelving the CD section at the library owns bc it inspires one to contemplate the existence of people who check out things like the Shrek soundtrack or 4 different Phil Collins CDs at once. Also we have a row of Glee CDs but there's no way anyone's checked one out since Obama

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao

Bit in Speak Memory where Nabokov 's tutor does a cringey slide projection of a long Lermontov poem and the slides are crammed with text, v poorly designed, & Nabokov is seething bc isn't Lermontov's poetry pedestrian shit >>>
He's like 12 at the time! Ranting about midbrow lit!

Do u ever read a book you've been meaning to read for years and you're like God what took me so long... Yeah it's Memoirs of Hadrian time

Problematic sex with my cancelled-on-bluesky wife

Me moment

Wild that there have been disappointing dudes named jason for thousands of years (medea moment)

Who do i follow