I’m done. I’m sick of Proust. Sick of his rambling go-nowhere prose. All that BS I laid on before? Total crap. My metaphor of exploration was based on the idea that my exploring would be rewarded with some shiny treasure; instead, it just goes on and on and hardly says a thing. I swear I [...]
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24 Jan 10
19 Jan 10
“For Marcel Proust, et. al” by Edward Abbey
They praise the firm restraint with which you write;
I’m with them there, of course.
You use the bridle and the bit all right -
But where’s the fucking horse?
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Well, thanks Ed. ‘Nuff said?
10 Dec 09
I’m still working my way, slowly but surely, through volume one of In Search of Lost Time, Swann’s Way. As expected the book’s plot (I’m assuming there will be something of a plot sometime soon) develops at a glacial pace, however Proust has announced his themes of time, memory, dream, and epiphany clearly and quickly. [...]
15 Nov 09
After staring down Anna Karenina last year I crested a daunting hill and looked down into the valley on the far side. The summit was the overbearing weight and patience needed to tackle the long novel. The valley below was the relief I felt that not only is reading a 700-800-plus page novel not difficult [...]
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