The Year of Reading Proust discussion

Eugene wrote: "An instructor at the Arts Students League, begun in New York in 1875, told the painting class I was in, some years later, that "Picasso proves that you don't have to be a nice guy to be a great art..."

Eugene, if you are willing...would you like to meet at The Morgan on Saturday?
The NYTimes has a review of the exhibit. However, I found an error (White should be Carter), so I'm not going to link to it.

Also, your post was provoking...Diane R. Leonard is one of my favorites.

Joseeph wrote: "I am so glad I found this blog.

I am coordinator of a clase on Le Recherche at a peer learning group for retirees in lower Manhattan.
Our Proust class started two years ago with about 30 members. ..."

I found the Spring Schedule for Quest (ccny.cuny.edu)
Proust: Tuesdays at 1-2:30 Week B
See page 13
http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective...

Marcelita wrote: "Eugene, if you are willing...would you like to meet at The Morgan on Saturday?"

I am willing and can be free anytime on Saturday to meet you at the Morgan, Marcelita.

I met a poet in an East Village restaurant several years ago after we'd been introduced by common interests in an internet discussion and she said, "I'll be wearing red underwear, if that helps..." Seriously, how should we identify one another and when?

"And however compressed and difficult this exhibition is, it gradually creates an effect. In a pocket notebook here from 1910, Proust calls artistic reality “a relation, a law joining different facts.” An artwork establishes connections between different worlds. That kind of reality, Proust writes, requires style, which is itself a series of connections in the material, an “alliance of words.” Style is not something extraneous to an artwork, but part of its essence: “A work of art only begins to exist from the moment that style appears.”

From Proust, for Those With a Memory
‘Marcel Proust and “Swann’s Way” ’ by Edward Rothstein at the Morgan Library from the New York Times http://nyti.ms/Un1Zhg

Eugene wrote: "Marcelita wrote: "Eugene, if you are willing...would you like to meet at The Morgan on Saturday?"

I am willing and can be free anytime on Saturday to meet you at the Morgan, Marcelita.

I met a p..."

Thrilled...I will be wearing Nick's square Proust 2013 button, when you see me in the lobby at ____ o'clock. You may name the time.
http://www.goodreads.com/photo/group/...

Nick's creative venture on our behalf:
http://www.zazzle.com/gifts?ch=thepro...

Waiting for the NYTimes to make the correction from Ed White to Bill Carter. Rather surprised at both the author error and the lack of citation of "Proust in Love" on "Promiscuous Proust."

Marcelita wrote: "Thrilled...I will be wearing Nick's square Proust 2013 button, when you see me in the lobby at ____ o'clock. You may name the time."

1 o'clock?

We'll have coffee or tea in the Morgan Cafe after Proust along with a crème brûlée, if you like.

Eugene wrote: "Marcelita wrote: "Thrilled...I will be wearing Nick's square Proust 2013 button, when you see me in the lobby at ____ o'clock. You may name the time."

1 o'clock?

We'll have coffee or tea in the ..."

Yes...maybe they will have linden blossom tea?

What a really lovely thing you have there, at Quest, Joseph. I can only hope that if I reach retirement, there'll be something similar for me to keep learning and reading! Thank you for sharing :)

I have had the experience of being in a relationship like Swann's that was no good for me and yet I allowed myself to be swallowed whole by it. I did identify with Swann as I read these sections and felt no small measure of sympathy and pity for him.

I love how Cottard is flummoxed by the enforced irony of Proust-era hipsters. He can never tell if a statement is meant sincerely or ironically, so he casts his face in a perpetual idiotic half-smile.

Dr Cottard was never quite certain of the tone in which he ought to reply to any observation, or whether the speaker was jesting or in earnest. And so by way of precaution he would embellish all his facial expressions with the offer of a conditional, a provisional smile whose expectant subtlety would exonerate him from the charge of being a simpleton, if the remark addressed to him should turn out to have been facetious.

Marcelita wrote: "Eugene wrote: "Marcelita wrote: "Thrilled...I will be wearing Nick's square Proust 2013 button, when you see me in the lobby at ____ o'clock. You may name the time."

1 o'clock?

We'll have coffee..."
Eugene and I made wonderful discoveries at The Morgan. We also found two errors...look for them. Hope they are corrected soon.