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• Ulysses in art: The tyranny of Joyce

  
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  To mark todays anniversary of Bloomsday, Alastair Smart considers the hit-and-miss art that James Joyces novel Ulysses has inspired down the years.        
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• ~moving between

  
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  ..i like moving between i like moving between joyce and proust. J and P. (and naturally there’s lots of others too) cause every writer is a rhizome and i am the burrow between! what hoa! It’s Monday, enjoy, till later, a tantôt.  ha!~ its tuesday and my (mine) (orbs my pearly glancers) are blurry O those are ...
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• Rachel Kushner: I know what it feels like to crash a motorcycle at 140mph

  
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  As her second novel, The Flamethrowers, is published, the writer talks about being compared with Flaubert, her insiders view of the art world, and her fascination with speed Rachel Kushners second novel, The Flamethrowers , has just been published to great acclaim. Its set in the New York art world of the 70s, and ...
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• Please Consider the Little Book

  
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  Unlike visual art, when it comes to books there is something unseemly about discussing form. We are taught that books are solely t heir content and we should not judge them by their cover. The paper may be nice, but it isn’t indicative of the quality of the writing. Or the cover photo is lovely, but the plot has ...
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• Incomprehensible

  
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  Molly Springfield is an artist I came across the last day of a show at Indianapolis Museum of Art on Sunday, titled "Graphite," a wonderful exhibit focusing on drawings made with, you guessed it, graphite.  What a lucky find.  Her work has a hermetically sealed innocence and intelligence to it that boggles ...
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• In your FACE, Proust!

  
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  Though I’m not sure the cartoon below has the elegance of the madeleine episode from The Remembrance of Lost Time (the first volume of which I’ve actually read), this cartoon below wins on brevity. If you want to save yourself … Continue reading →
  2 weeks ago

• PHOTOS: Forgot Those Marriage Equality Protestors, Let’s Celebrate The Gay French

  
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  For better and worse, the French and their complicated relationship with marriage equality continue to make news. After France became the 14th nation to recognize same sex unions, Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau  (pictured above) became the first couple to marry under the new law on Wednesday. This was after ...
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• a set of questions, part #2

  
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  see yesterday for the why and wherefore. WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE FICTIONAL HERO? not a hero really, but i find the life of the narrator of lawrence durrell’s “alexandria quartet” compelling and real. WHO ARE YOUR REAL-LIFE HEROES? i’ve always acquainted the word ‘hero’ with someone who saves you personally ...
  3 weeks ago

• To Go or Not to Go?

  
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  “This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly becomes a part of the tangible world.” –Freya Stark It’s been on my horizon for over three years now. Ever elusive, whimsical, charming, it rises over the peaked ...
  3 weeks ago

• a set of questions, part #1

  
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  because of time constraints, i have divided  this proustian endeavor into a week’s worth of posts. you have matthew to blame. WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST FEAR?  physical fear: snakes. psychic fear: violence. WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT STATE OF MIND? benign befuddlement accompanied by a mild sense of happiness. WHAT IS YOUR ...
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• What to read? (Part 10) Rereading

  
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  There is a particular art and pleasure to rereading – a fact agreed upon by many of the authors and critics I’ve consulted recently. Dip into the books-about-books genre and you’ll discover that authors almost invariably exhort their readers to discover the joys of reading old favorites again (and again).   In ...
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• “Nie almal waardeer my humorsin nie”: Twee onderhoude met bekroonde digter Hennie Nortjé

  
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  Hennie Nortjé se debuutbundel, In die skadu van soveel bome , is vanjaar met die Eugène Maraisprys vir eerste of vroeë letterkundige werk bekroon . Dié bundel het bome as sentrale tema en JB Roux het by Nortjé gaan uitvind waarom hy hierdie tema gekies het: Op ’n sonnige herfsoggend maak jy jou in die ...
  3 weeks ago

• Thought Of The Day

  
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  [IMG: http://visual-therapy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MarcelProust-Quote.jpg]
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• A 4 Million Word Betrayal

  
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  By some estimations , Marcel Proust’s   In Search of Lost Time  is the longest novel ever written. It is also considered one of the best. Though broken up into seven volumes, with the last three still rough drafts at the time of Proust’s death, the 1,200,000 word novel is lauded as a singular work of “daily ...
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• Observing Life

  
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  To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. - Marilyn vos Savant The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust Be an Observer of Life. Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life is not a substitute for action - it is a ...
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