Proust

Candida Romero : a Marcel Proust, le jeu de la recherche : peintures et collages

Location: George Eastman House Library Main Stacks Non Circulating Call number: TR647.R6588 G25 C26 Imprint: Paris : Galerie Albert Loeb, 1997

THE MIND OF: BRIAN MAGALLONES

Here is my new weekly Proust Questionnaire which feature people I know (and some people I don't): Brian Magallones always makes me smile. Maybe it's because he's always smiling, but I could be wrong. As a career, Brian is a...

Chill Out: The Key to Insight is Relaxation

New Yorker magazine has a great piece about how insight works in the brain. Jonah Lerher, author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, explores what happens in the brain when revelations, insights and new ideas are… ... continue reading

New Books on the Crime Scene

Here’s looking at some new crime books at SJCPL. In Unlocked: A Journey from Prison to Proust by Louis Ferrante we follow the dangerous exploits of Ferrante as he rises the Mafia ranks attracting the notice of underboss John Gotti…from highjacking armored cars to ultimately getting busted for federal credit card fraud. Thrown into a [...]

REFLECTION ABOUT FRIENDSHIP AND RECIPROCITY

I believe that friendship is like flowers, both needs much caress and fondness to grow well. When its bloomed and open, it produces a lovely flower. "Friendship is mutual reciprocity of affection and purpose". "Friendship is mutual reciprocity of affection and purpose". -- Aristotle. "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom". -- Marcel Proust. "Friendship of goodness depends on love, on likeness, on recognition, on reciprocity, o...

Prom 2008 Rules 4-Eva

Prom was awesome. The action kicked off when me and Casey (purple tux, below) decided to meet up at the Suit Corner at 3rd and Market at 5 p.m. to grab matching suits. We got a great deal, as we each got our swanky tuxes for $49.98. The guy who waited on us was really cool. I highly recommend the Suit Corner for all of your shopping needs, particularly if pink tuxedo is one of the things you are shopping for. Casey and I picked up our dates (mine was RPS legend April Annie) at around 9 p.m., th...

Two books in the TLS

The July 4 Times Literary Supplement ran an excellent review Evelyn Bloch-Dano's Madame Proust: A Biography—an engaging account of the life of Jeanne Wiel, mother to Marcel Proust, and as Bloch-Dano demonstrates, a decisive influence on the great writer's career. Touching on a myriad of ways in which Proust's mother helped to mold her son into one of the nineteenth-century's most famous novelists the review pays special attention to Proust's mother as a German Jew living in France just before...

Dominus meus et Deus meus

Where deep the spear had pierced, there Thomas searched thy side, Whence for the nations' health, poured forth the healing tide; By this and each blest wound thy glorious Body bears, We suppliants thee entreat, regard our contrite prayers. I intended to post something for the beginning of the Pauline Year, but didn't get to it, and now I've just finished singing Vespers of Saint Thomas! I will get to the Pauline Year, that I promise, but for the moment I want to share the splendid antiphons giv...

A coffee, donut, and some Proust....to go

My colleague shared an interesting quote from today's Outsell newsletter: Reading on mobile phones is becoming more common both in the US and abroad. "Literature on mobile phones is massive in China," says general manager of Penguin China, Jo Lusby....

The Best Florists in Toronto

Flowers weren't always the mild-mannered simile for beauty they are today. Take dahlias: harmless filler flower now, formerly the Aztec flower of war, the bloom of choice to accompany human sacrifices to the Serpent Woman. (I feel like I just broke some unspoken rule about keeping the phrase "human sacrifices" out of feel-good flower posts. Oh well.) Then there's tulips. Today they crowd the entrance to every convenience store, yet during Holland's Tulpenwoede ("tulip fury") a single bulb was on...