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Vygotsky, Lukacs, Ilyenkov, Levinas, Proust, Ashbery, and all that.
I am not going to tweet the last line.

#Proust
January 4, 2024 at 10:13 PM
It seems he was at that "last" Guermantes party all the time. Time Regained does show its unfinished, posthumous nature, much more so than The Captive or The Fugitive.

#Proust
January 4, 2024 at 10:12 PM
It wasn't the last dinner party. Sometime later, Marcel falls badly ill. Will he die before he can write his novel? There are only 14 pages to go!

#Proust
January 4, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Françoise has known Marcel for most of his life -- and she might be the only working person to appear in the whole novel. As he fantasises about finally getting down to work, it's Françoise he turns to for recognition.

#Proust
January 4, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Before and after Dreyfus.

#Proust
January 2, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Everything is a mirror for Marcel (he's right though).

#Proust
January 1, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Is there another Ampère? The only Ampère I know is André-Marie. And I only know one de Broglie and he wasn't a duchess.

#Proust
January 1, 2024 at 7:56 PM
"An hour is not merely an hour..."

(et encore contre le cinématographe.)

#Proust
December 26, 2023 at 4:34 PM
In Time Regained, François le Champi is Marcel's "madeleine de Proust".
December 22, 2023 at 2:19 PM
Je n'aime pas le cinématographe.

#Proust
December 22, 2023 at 2:18 PM
The struggle to remember, and the struggle to create -- it's the same struggle.

#Proust
December 22, 2023 at 2:16 PM
Do not read this paragraph if you are reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time now or anytime soon!
December 19, 2023 at 8:46 PM
After "many years" at a sanatorium, Marcel returns to his old Paris stomping grounds.

We're into the last 300 pages of the novel, and the narrative is soaring slowly towards climax and resolution.

#Proust
December 19, 2023 at 8:43 PM
Lactose intolerance

#Proust
December 19, 2023 at 8:42 PM
Relieved to see that Mamma is still with us.

#Proust
December 19, 2023 at 8:41 PM
It's all made up apart from this bit.

#Proust
December 18, 2023 at 2:20 PM
Looking for somewhere to have a drink on this hot Paris night, Marcel finds somewhere strange (you can probably imagine who they're talking about).

#Proust
December 16, 2023 at 2:44 PM
Just as he left out the duels, he's left out the "military service".

#Proust
December 16, 2023 at 2:43 PM
"The moonlight was like a soft and
steady magnesium flare"

#Proust
December 16, 2023 at 2:42 PM
Wartime trials and comforts

#Proust
December 14, 2023 at 4:01 PM
1916 Paris and the new-fangled Daylight Saving Time.

"The lamps had already been lit ..."

#Proust
December 14, 2023 at 3:59 PM
Sudden lurch of vertigo reading that "retrospectively".

#Proust
December 10, 2023 at 12:38 PM
Marcel visits Paris in 1914
and again in 1916. These might
be the first dates in the novel.

#Proust
December 5, 2023 at 9:06 PM
After his revulsion at the Goncount narrative, Marcel rallies

"... it is not the man with the liveliest ..."

#Proust
December 5, 2023 at 9:04 PM
Odd section begins here. Marcel sits down to read an article from the latest Journal of the Goncourts. There follows a 12 page "quotation" which is essentially a pastiche of what we've been reading for the last x000 pages.
December 5, 2023 at 7:38 PM