Word: proust
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...called "black diaries" which Casement supporters erroneously denounced as forgeries. The diaries document his obsession with the price and private parts of an incredible array of consorts. (As the saying went in London when the diaries were circulated, "Gomorrah, begorra!") Oscar Wilde, Somerset Maugham, Verlaine, Gide and Proust are not judged today on the basis of their sexual proclivities; nor, argues Inglis, should Casement...
Hopkins' third point - and it is the lesson of so great a writer as Proust - is that love is indivisible. Whatever its form of expression, the essence of love never differs. Hopkins never makes any of these points as didactic arguments...
...equal fascination to researchers is the persistence of memory, the ability not only to store but also to recall information and experiences. In Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel released a flood of memories by tasting a tea-soaked petite Madeleine. Others have found that a memory-jogging whiff of perfume, a word, a few notes of music can conjure up similar-and often realistic-recollections of events they experienced many years earlier. A landmark discovery was made by the great Canadian neurosurgeon, Wilder Penfield, when he found that he could stimulate memories electrically. Probing a patient...
...reject the notion of some science-fiction writers that memory molecules-and thereby memories-may one day be transferred from one brain to another. "The immune response is a learned reaction," says Rockefeller University's Edelman, again citing the parallel between memory and immunology. "There is no Marcel Proust for immunology. I doubt that there's one for the neurosciences...
...taste of movie lovers generally can be calculated along an axis: those who like Women in Love intersects the line of those who don't. Those who like it usually don't like Godard, Resnais, exponents of the New Sensibility; they prefer Elvira Madigan to The Emigrants, Tolstoy to Proust, Flaubert to Gide. They choose oreos over hydrox, Pepsi over Coke, The Beatles over Traffic, Ritz over Saltines, Lily Pulitzer over Design Research, Cliffie peaches over Cliffie limes, and so on and so forth. Allston Cinema...