Author post… Musings on Proust, part 5 13 May 202013 May 2020 I have at last finished with part 2 of tome 2, and I must give Proust some credit: the sentence structure is less tormented now, though the protagonist is more…
Author post Half a Face Is Better than None 27 Apr 202027 Apr 2020 There are pleasures to be found even in lockdown. There are discoveries to be made in the small minutes of living that make up so much more of our lives…
Author post… Musings on Proust, Part 4 15 Apr 202016 Apr 2020 Having finished not with A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs as I had at first vainly imagined, but only Part 1 of Tome 2, I prepare to plunge into…
Author post Musings on Proust, part 3 7 Apr 2020 I am halfway through A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, and here Proust meanders onward, ever onward...except when he goes left, or right, or back for a while, or…
Author post Musings on Proust, Part 2 31 Mar 202031 Mar 2020 Finished Du coté de chez Swann last night.... Okay, I'm beginning to wonder whether I feel about Proust (so far, having read one volume out of seven, each of which…
Author post Musings on Proust, Part 1 27 Mar 202027 Mar 2020 I have at last begun reading Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. While the coronavirus pandemic and its accompanying restrictions have given me more time to read, I actually…
Author post The Mockingbird’s Song 24 Mar 2020 I went on my rigorously lonely walk today under a tumbled gray sky, wandering through the residential neighborhoods nearby, with their charming houses and apartment buildings. Lots of Art-Deco touches…
Author post The Minuet 22 Mar 202022 Mar 2020 The streets are blank of traffic on this epidemic Sunday, but there are people--not many--walking or even jogging on the sidewalks. There are groceries to go to, and anyway keeping…
Author post… Signs from Heaven 21 Mar 2020 One thing I love about our apartment is its windows. We are on the second floor, and our street is narrow and bordered mostly with older, graceful buildings. There's a…
Author post When Clichés Come to Life 20 Mar 202020 Mar 2020 Clichés are much derided in writing circles, and rightly so: they are a lazy way to express the character of a situation, and usually they have been heard so often…
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