in san francisco recently for work, C and i wandered into the greenapple bookstore. come to think of it was one of their warehouses, but that's not the point. the point is i saw proust's IN THE SHADOW OF YOUNG GIRLS IN FLOWER and decided that for $4.99 i could re-connect with some of the more enjoyable reading i did in college.
yeah. making it through this behemoth is going to be tough. here's a characteristic chapter -- i mean sentence:
"Since this was the beginning of a second life for both of them, among a circle of new people (except for personal friends from his bachelor days whom he went on seeing alone, and whom he did not wish to burden with the acquaintence of Odette, unless they themselves expressed the wish to meet her), it would have been understandable if, in judging the social standing of these new people, and thereby gauging the degree of self-esteem that their company might afford him, his standard of comparison had been based at least on Odette's former associates, if not on the exalted individuals among whom he himself had moved before his marriage."
what?
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