![]() ![]() Like the radio shows in the 40?s, it lets you create your own images and story line. ![]() Until now, I thought that only reading 3,000 pages of Proust?s magic style could create this perfect experience. Can I say, comparable in my mind to climbing the Everest? There is something very intimate about Proust?s writing. ![]() But, they are missing a great experience. How can you go through life without experiencing Proust?s books? Most people do. There is an unabridged version on the market-expensive, but maybe worth it. One caveat: It is a pity to abridge this book. Instead we take from his example the ability to see in our own trivial moments the glimmer of literature. We no more need a plot in this book than we need one in our own lives. So accurately does he dissect every emotion, reveal every motivation and explore every ramification that we become him. Normally I require a plot in any book I read, but with Proust it's different. Where Buddhism teaches "mindfulness", the awareness of each feature of each moment, and the understanding that it will never be repeated just that way again, the rest of us have Proust. He enobles them we take dignity from them. Proust puts the magic in all the trivial bits that make up our lives. What they really needed was to read (or, even better, listen to, Proust). In the movie THE HOURS everybody feels their lives are trivial, so they jump out of windows, etc. ![]()
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