One Year In Search of Lost Time ~ 2015 discussion

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower/Within a Budding Grove

I apologize that I’ve gotten behind, both in my reading and participation in this group. I’ll try to get all the schedules up this week so my procrastination isn’t a factor for the other volumes. I’ll also make sure I contribute to the conversations as I catch up this week.

Each quote is found at the end of a paragraph. These quotes are from the Penguin edition (this volume is translated by James Grieve). I don’t have the MKE translation of this volume so when I had the option I tried to choose quotes that included a proper noun. After each quote I cite the approximate page percentage of the line. The percentage is of the text ISoLT only, excluding introductions and prefaces, end notes and summaries.

February 28
“It was after nightfall, and the columns of stone had been desolidified by the moonlight, which, by turning them into cardboard cut-outs, and reminding me of a stage set for Orpheus in the Underworld, gave me my very first glimpse of beauty” (~11.3%).

March 7
"I began to wonder whether originality really shows that great writers are gods, each of them reigning over a kingdom which is his alone, whether misleading appearances might not be the result of hard work, rather than the expression of a radical difference in essence between distinct personalities” (~23%).

March 14
“Well I for one shan’t be going, said Odette. We’ll just look in briefly at the last Wednesday of the run. Mme Bontemps did not seem enraptured by this suggested adjournment” (~33.8%).

March 21
“He did not answer, whether because of surprise at my statement, attentiveness to his work, a sense of protocol, hardness of hearing, respect for place, fear of danger, laziness of mind or the manager’s instructions” (~45.3%).

March 28
“…but that he could not bear to stay till the end of the play, with its ridiculous lines turned out by a writer who was gifted but given to bombast, and who only came to be deemed a great poet as the result of a deal, as a reward for the sedulous self-interest with which he promoted the dangerous haverings of the socialists” (~56.4%).

April 4
“If she really did intend to leave him, no doubt she would wait quietly until she had ‘made her pile’, which, in view of the sums doled out by Saint-Loup, looked as though it might take a very short time, although any time, however short, would afford my new friend a little extra happiness — or unhappiness” (~68.1%).

April 11
“Perhaps the unconscious well-being drawn from the summer’s day helped to swell, like a tributary, the joy I had taken in seeing Harbour at Carquethuit (~79.2%).

April 18
“These are the farms known as Les Écorres, the Marie-Thérèse, the Croix-d’Heuland, the Bagatelle, the Californie and the Marie-Antoinette. It was the last of these that the little gang of girls had adopted” (~90.6%).

April 25
End of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower/Within a Budding Grove.

Jacob, is the week of March 14th, really supposed to be to 40%?

Nope. Good catch. I'll change it. It should be around 34%.

Thanks Jacob. I thought it might be something like that. :)

don't worry Jacob, everyone can fall behind from time to time. now we have the schedule and can keep it up easily until the end of book two. thanks for the work already, setting up the schedule!