pickPicked up some gorgeous editions of Proust‘s trilogy while visiting family for the holidays 🍂 also found an encyclopedia of herbs— anyone else read the encyclopedia as a kid?
🕯️🍂This centerpiece combines rosemary & marigolds, memorializing absent friends 🪦🍁 so it‘s a fitting representation of both finds!
So .... known as a classic & beloved around the world ... not sure why.... what I DO know is that there is gorgeous prose where you also enjoy the story. (Astonishing.) There is gorgeous prose that has benefitted from an editor .... oh, not this book. No editor in sight; at best, asleep at the wheel. I did enjoy the parts where Swann appeared but anxiety over a good night kiss from Mom = snore. I continue but Swann, Swann where art thou?
The last time I ordered from #BetterWorldBooks half my order never arrived. They refunded my money quite nicely, so I decided to give them another try. I ordered the complete set of Proust‘s Remembrance of Things Past / In Search of Lost Time because I didn‘t trust that I could get through it in French. This is what arrived. All the volumes (the bottom book is 5, 6 & 7) except 1. Instead I got Smoking Typewriters ?!?! I‘ve written them 👇🏻
“‘When from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and #smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more immaterial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls.”
#LitsyClassics @Sarah83
"I raised to my lips a spoonful of tea in which I had soaked a morsel of cake. No sooner had the warm liquid, and the crumbs with it, touched my palate, a shudder ran through my body, and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary changes that were taking place. An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses, but individual, detached, with no suggestion of it's origins."
#cookie #quotsydec17 @TK-421
There's a whole lot of "wild" in this picture. #catsoflitsy #booksinthewild #riotgrams #day10 #daylate
#riotgrams #shelfie
Day 1 of @bookriot month-long photo thing.
Have posted my dedicated bookshelves enough in the past, so here's my more free-form shelves. One on the right was gonna be solely Criterion editions, but I needed the room for other stuff; left shelf is C.D.s, board & video games and additional DVDs and books.
The bathroom door in my hotel room has a picture of Proust on the outside and a quote from Remembrance of Things Past on the inside.
"We would like the truth to be revealed to us by novel signs, not by a sentence similar to those which we have constantly repeated to ourselves. The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunizes us against it, makes it seem no more than another thought." This seems even more true today than in Proust's time when we become so saturated with media showers. Photo of Proust's Ms.
"Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them. But each past day has remained deposited in us, as in a vast library where, even of the oldest books, there is a copy which doubtless nobody will ever ask to see."
#shelfie
Remembrance of Things Past | 
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