![]() ![]() I'll stop there, there are a thousand rabbit holes of discourse that can be followed and as other have noted of every variety, of great beauty, of dense, self-absorption, bawdiness, witty humor and even low brow humor: Bloch stumbling and stepping on feet to accidentally save Marcel from an awkward social mistake. Proust in "Time Regained" even remarked on "my readers" or rather they, excuse me, "we" are not really his readers "but (rather) the readers of their own selves" I don't think it is too cute to suggest that in his recursive style of writing we too are characters in his books. ![]() There was this old copy of "The Captive" on the shelf, did my late mother (who got her degree in English literature) read this 45 years ago or was it my 40 books a year brother (who pretty much made it through the Faulkner canon). What occasioned this is my own little Proustian moment, returning to my parent's house and looking through all the books stored there in my old bedroom. I'm back, and guess what? I finished the third volume! Now for the fun part, I haven't read the first two volumes. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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