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...This week Dowd attacked the President for his "magnificent obsession" with Star Wars. A very literary spasm of woofing: In the first few paragraphs, she cited the obsessions in Proust's "Swann's Way", Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice", Nabokov's "Lolita", Oscar Wilde's "De Profundis," and Melville's "Moby Dick" - a way of signaling that all of us on the right side of the Star Wars issue are bright, literate English majors, and that the presidential doofus on the other of the room, eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, is, I mean, George W. Bush! Texas! Little...
BOOK Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust. "Rereading this was probably the most engaging thing I've done in the past five years...
...many comix artists have turned into epic-makers it may be a trend. Several weeks ago TIME.comix reviewed the first volume (out of twelve) of an adaptation of Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past." Before that, Jason Lutes' first of three volumes on Weimar Berlin ("Berlin: City of Stones") made our best-of-2000 list. Now add to that the first of a seven-volume retelling of western civilization's original epic, the fall of Troy, in Eric Shanower's "Age of Bronze...
...early days, quick adapters thought they had found the killer app: they used it to call their friends to find out whether their postcards had arrived. ("It has? Great. Bye.") In the first part of the 20th century, the Paris utility pioneered a phone-in opera service. Marcel Proust loved it. He'd dial up from home and someone would hold up a phone next to the stage and, voila, Wagner interactif...
...course, is where I go from here. Will this imaginary entry be an ironic prelude to future greatness like that of Wordsworth, or that drop-out in my father’s freshman facebook, William Gates? Or is this entry representative of a trend? Will I be a Proust or a Prufrock...