I often think of random and disjointed things, and have decided to record some of them here:
- Having finished In Search of Lost Time, I went back to Swann's Way and noticed that in the beginning of the book, the Narrator mentions that he has stayed, at one point, with a Mme. de Saint-Loup. I vaguely remember when I first read it and thinking she was probably some random old woman with nice furniture
- Byron and Keats died at 36 and 26 respectively, as did Pushkin and Lermontov. I thought this was a strange coincidence.
- Describing Eric's Trip to someone: is Slowdive meets the Stooges accurate? Or simply a Lo-fi Slowdive (for whatever reason I think the dynamics of both bands were very similar)
- If Chris Osgood does end up in the Hockey Hall of Fame, no member will have been so consistently out-played that I can recall. He's lost his starting job to Mike Vernon, Garth Snow, and Ty Conklin in addition to CuJo/Hasek and finally Jimmy Howard.
- I really should read some Balzac at some point, but I'm not particularly sure which part of La Comédie Humaine I should read (since I likely won't have time for all of it)
Showing posts with label Proust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Proust. Show all posts
Monday, July 25, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
First Post!
This is my first post, so I'll just mention a couple things as starters:
- As a pedant, I chose to name this blog after the not particularly noteworthy but nonetheless remarkable character from In Search of Lost Time because I really do love Proust; the name itself reflects my own sense of anachronism; and almost as a hope that I should have the same mysterious and unpredictable talent, bordering on genius, that "I'm a wash-out" (whose real name is Octave - one of three people whom I can recall in the book whose names are in the dictionary, the others being Basin and that guy whom everyone calls Gri-gri but never shows up in La richerche) eventually displays in the art of theatre set design
- I may, assuming I post here, post on a number of different topics, and I don't predict that I shall end up specializing too much
- That was two, and that's all I have to say, but that is too small a number of subjects for bullets to be used, so yeah. Hopefully I post with relative frequency
- As a pedant, I chose to name this blog after the not particularly noteworthy but nonetheless remarkable character from In Search of Lost Time because I really do love Proust; the name itself reflects my own sense of anachronism; and almost as a hope that I should have the same mysterious and unpredictable talent, bordering on genius, that "I'm a wash-out" (whose real name is Octave - one of three people whom I can recall in the book whose names are in the dictionary, the others being Basin and that guy whom everyone calls Gri-gri but never shows up in La richerche) eventually displays in the art of theatre set design
- I may, assuming I post here, post on a number of different topics, and I don't predict that I shall end up specializing too much
- That was two, and that's all I have to say, but that is too small a number of subjects for bullets to be used, so yeah. Hopefully I post with relative frequency
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