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...townsfolk are happy about Illiers' status as the center of a Proust cult. Until quite recently, many scorned the author as a homosexual, atheistic, hypochondriac aesthete. Also a very difficult writer. Even Mayor René Compère, 67, a pert little man who takes visitors on a lecture tour around the town, has yet to crack the gigantic set of Proust's works that is prominently displayed in his office. Compère argues that les Proustiens, as the literary-minded tourists are known, are not even good for business. Says the mayor: 'They come from...
...TUESDAY, 2 p. m. After a departmental tutorial lecture, individual tutorials congregate to decide on the time of the first meeting. My tutor suggests Thursday, 2-4. Unable to remember when my Comp Lit seminar has its first meeting and unable to find a catalog, I guess and ask him to change the meeting to 4-6. Everyone agrees. It is not until I return to my room that I find the seminar meets Thursdays, from...
...Wednesday 11 a. m. I go to the office of the professor giving the Comp Lit graduate seminar. He is not in. I ask his secretary the chances of an undergraduate's being admitted to the course. Pretty good, she thinks. I should go to the first meeting. I tell her that I can't. Well, she says, then my chances aren't too good. I arrange an appointment for Friday, 10:30 a. m. and leave wondering how anyone can be so stupid...
...Friday, 10:30 a. m. I go to the office of the Comp Lit professor. When I walk in, I see my written application in the center of his desk. On the top, in big red letters, is the word NO. I look up. This is a graduate seminar, he tells me. Seniors are occasionally admitted. Juniors rarely. Sophomores, as a general rule, never. He asks me if I can give him a good reason to make an exception to the rule...
...Radcliffe students showed up for the comp meeting Monday, but at last night's meeting the men were once again alone. A third meeting is scheduled at 7:30 tonight...