Interesting. Checked the Upper Hudson Library System and all are "checked in."
Moncreiff is the primary translator that the newer translations are all "much better than." To read Proust is a major resolution. It took me eight months of constant effort to get through it. Unbelievable bright spots, bore-you-to-sleep other passages. Suggest you try the movies Swann in Love and Time Regained, too.
I once saw a word, sort of like "palindrome" in form, that referred to "a sevice purchased, but never rendered"; example: buying postage stamps for a collection -- the postal delivery service presumably purchased was never rendered. I keep seeing examples of this type of service, but cannot recall the word or locate in a dictionary or google it. Perhaps one of you wordies would know it.
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richards commented on the word proust
Interesting. Checked the Upper Hudson Library System and all are "checked in."
Moncreiff is the primary translator that the newer translations are all "much better than." To read Proust is a major resolution. It took me eight months of constant effort to get through it. Unbelievable bright spots, bore-you-to-sleep other passages. Suggest you try the movies Swann in Love and Time Regained, too.
January 3, 2009
richards commented on the word sevice
I once saw a word, sort of like "palindrome" in form, that referred to "a sevice purchased, but never rendered"; example: buying postage stamps for a collection -- the postal delivery service presumably purchased was never rendered. I keep seeing examples of this type of service, but cannot recall the word or locate in a dictionary or google it. Perhaps one of you wordies would know it.
January 3, 2009
richards commented on the word hochmagandy
Nabokov used it to denote sex "just for the fun of it."
December 26, 2008