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Very good BBC article.

Funny that #Proust, who was also fascinated by how modern technique changed his perception of the world, was a great admirer of what he knew of Turner ...which probably didn't include The Fighting Temeraire or any of the works showing steam-engines : I read he only knew of those engravings after Turner contained in Ruskin's Harbours of England (available on #GutenbergProject, with engravings!)

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Project GutenbergThe Harbours of England by John RuskinFree kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

…❛❛ James Gleick’s meditation on Time covers how time is experienced psychologically, how artists such as #Borges, #Proust, and #Wells create with it, how #religions conjure #eternity, how #cosmology probes forking #universes, and how so much comes down to the #nature of “now.”

Science historian #Gleick is the author of #Chaos (1987), #IsaacNewton (2003), #TheInformation (2011), and "Time Travel: A History" (2016) ❜❜…

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=FeBiai2G_T 15 Jan 2020

Thanks to whoever here that recommended I read Harold Pinter's Proust Screenplay if I continued having trouble reading Proust. I've been stalled on vol. 2 forever but I just devoured the screenplay in less than a day. I think I shall continue trudging through the novel. (Also, I very much appreciated the lack of the madeleine in the screenplay.)

Here they are, my companions from the last many months and many years, dragged through my own labyrinth of memories and years. Bought at Moe's? Dragged at least vol 1 through Eastern Europe in 1993, but only got through Swann's Way.
As he puts it, I thought all this time that the telescope was a microscope.

Screeching in on the End of Time, this excruciating and beautiful Proust volume is all about aging and time and the various persons we inhabit as it all goes along.

Here's to gray hair, ugly spots, myopia, and literature. Also running, gray skies, and age.

Marcel Proust was born on this day in 1871. I think the most heartfelt tribute to his cultural importance came from John Cleese:

"… Marcel Proust had an 'addock! So if you're calling the author of 'A la recherche de temps perdu' a loony, I shall have to ask you to step outside!"