But she's subtle about it. She uses words in a way that mask judgement. [there is a reason you inhale books -- you get to see the patterns emerge--- but you have to read A LOT for a LONG TIME to see them. Most people don't have that luxury.
Shame. But pointing out the obvious has always paid the bills. Comfort thoughts like comfort foods, filling, tasty, tempting, cunning, baffling, powerful...the Madeleine in the tea. I think it was tea. I've never read Proust. Well, I've tried, I've ploughed and trudged and ocassionally flew through pieces of the real thing but mostly I know Proust by heresay.
And what do we choose to read of the stuff that's been written by people who have actually read Proust--or claim to
flashpoint breakthrough for a moment
I know I have to move sometime.
Freezeframe: I am not a real person. EoM
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