a very long engagement
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a very long engagement
And here is the review that inspired my trip:
www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/t...
A pic of the Salle Richelieu before a performance of Christophe Honoré's theatrical adaptation of "Le Côté de Guermantes." Pic dates from May 2023.
Lastly, high grade gossip abounds in these pages.
I think that a lot people get stuck on the first volume (esp. the first section), but if you continue, you will encounter some wonderful (funny, dazzling, repellent) characters that keep popping up amid the meditations on memory, desire, time, and art, among others.
If you make it through all of the salons and dinner parties, I found that the final volume ("Finding Time Again") was unbelievably beautiful and illuminated much about the first volume.
My interest in reading it stemmed from my visit to Paris in 2023 in which I attended a performance of "The Guermantes Way" at the Salle Richelieu.
I found that "Swann's Way" was the least accessible of the volumes (esp. the first 50 pages or so). However, if you plow through and also read "In the Shadow of. Young Girls in Flower," you may start to fall under its spell.
Finished this one (at last). Read the entire cycle over the last two years or so. If you are interested in wading through this roman-fleuve, I'd advise you to read in digestible chunks (say 20-25 pages a day) and to take advantage of the summary, which is found at the end of the volumes.
Four Days in France youtu.be/suq7cLGbHcY?...
Increasingly obsessed with this bonkers music video for this lovely tune: youtu.be/o7MwHGHWgLk?...
🎶Sleek women in Positanooooooo!🎶
I followed this story with some interest as well.
What’s your bag, Klute?
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The Small Meadows in Spring
🎨 Alfred Sisley (1880)
Tsushima
JUST IN: Democrats flip a seat in the New Hampshire state House.
Dem Bobbi Boudman has won today’s special election, NHJournal reports.
(Boudman was the Dem nominee in 2024 & lost by 14%; Trump won here by 9%.)
This is Dems’ third legislative flip so far this year, after Texas and Arkansas.
Is anyone watching "La Chambre d'Orso" on the Instagram? I have only watched two episodes but will be binging the rest of it this evening.
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
You’re such a dreamy man.
Whatever it is that you may be doing, you do look really good.
Your glasses continue to suit you.
Marguerite Duras and a book loving cat
#Caturday
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Beautiful photo.
Find that rhetoric around that Oscar nominee is a bit much.
Happy Birthday!
My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.
Heart-carved tree trunk, yankee bayonet
The Winter’s Tale, Henry V, As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor
