“Some used to say,” Marcel says, “that art in a period of speed and haste would be brief, like the people before the war who predicted that it would be over quickly.”
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again, trans. Ian Patterson (London: Penguin, 2003).
No brief art here: our household’s tandem reading club has been at In Search of Lost Time since December 8. We’re set to reach the last page tomorrow.
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Saturday, May 1, 2021
Art and speed and haste
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What? The last page? There's a last page?
Then what?
Will you start at the beginning again?
I've enjoyed reading along, in tidbits--just my pace and brain capacity.
No going back now — it’s not Finnegans Wake. : ) Next stop is Villette.
We’ve done a little more than twenty pages a day, fifteen or so in one sitting, then another five or so later in the day.
Oh, a coworker was reading Villette, which made me curious (a coworker reading a novel!)--I've only read Jane Eyre.
Will be interested to hear what you think and read selected tidbits.
Coming soon!
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