Re: Proust 2000!
bethany edstrom (bethanyedstrom@hotmail.com)
Fri, 03 Dec 1999 16:21:32 -0600 (CST)
Laughing Man,
I would absolutely be up for this. Where is this group meeting? Sweden? or
cyberspace?
BE
>From: The Laughing Man <the_laughing_man@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: Proust 2000!
>Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 11:55:29 +0000 (GMT)
>
>I’ll try to refrain from exclaiming too many of my eventual Eureka’s (or,
>on the other hand, feelings of complete boredom from those 10 consecutive
>pages of describing a church) in the fish pond, but I’d like to give you
>all a semi-supported chance to start up the new millenium the right way: by
>reading Proust.
>
>Starting January 1, a group of natural science misfits, a group of which I
>happen to be a member, have decided to read Proust’ “Remembrance of Things
>Past” at a pace of 10 pages a day, which will allow us to finish the entire
>series in less than a year (approx. 3500 pages in total). Many of us have
>tried on our own, perhaps even finishing volume 3 before other aspects of
>the outside life took over and it was impossible to start over again.
>Others have reached only the famous Madeleine cookie scene at page 30-ish,
>volume one, finally realizing why ever one knows that one.
>
>We realized the task of actually keeping the pace though 3500 pages on our
>own was all but impossible in this modern time. Too many excuses, too
>little discipline. But united we are strong! So (at least) once every month
>we will meet, discussing or sharing articles we have found or maybe looking
>at Monty Python’s “Marcel Proust Summarisation Contest”. We have our
>reading scheme, so we know how far we can expect the group to have reached.
>So we can do just the right cocktail mingling with others injected with the
>same dose of Proust.
>
>Well, we don’t expect every member to actually read through it all. But we
>do expect to try. So if anyone here don’t know what to ask for Christmas, a
>present just so hard and heavy we used to like it when we were kids, can be
>reality.
>
>The more, the merrier! So think about it, fellow fishes. Can’t promise you
>quality time in front of the local VCR, but emotional support none the
>less. And maybe an invitation for the big “We did it!”-Party in December
>2000. Read it already? Well, some things are even better the second time.
>No risk of dipping our Proust too many time in the tea, anyway...
>
>/The Proust Wannabe Man
>
>
>
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