Tonight Adam Gopnik spoke or possibly is still speaking on Proust's letters, at the Maison Francaise at NYU. Problem is, although my cold's basically over, I now have a cough. Which meant a constant tension of a not at all literary variety. "This is interesting." Followed by, cough. "I had no idea!" Cough. "Maybe I should leave... but this is so cool!" Cough. "There will be wine and cheese afterwards!" Cough.
The coughing won out in the end. I'm assuming that the second I left, the discussion switched over to the subject of the Dreyfus Affair or Proust and Freud, i.e. whatever would have most interested me. But so be it, I spared a very chic audience from catching a cold not nearly as elegant as Proust's, what was it, tuberculosis? that led, much like his madeleine, to all sorts of wonderfulness.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Proust's letters, abridged
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You're lucky you could get in ! the woman shoved the door on our face at some point.
By the way I saw you joinded the Tzarfatit group. I've been trying to pronounce that word in hebrew class but I just can't (it's mainly due to the fact that a french comic actor used to perform as "Madame Sarfati" in the worst outfit ever, see fr yourself : http://www.lematin.ch/nwmatinhome/nwmatinheadpeople/_elie_homosexuel_.body.Image.1.gif)
sorry this is a random message :)
That is v. frightening.
Are you taking Hebrew at NYU? If so, which class? I took Beginner 1 in college, and need to restart this sometime soon... but I suppose I can just ask you all this in class!
Yes ! I'm taking Hebrew for beginners at Speaking Freely (check their website), they also have intermediate, with the same prof. It's at the bronfman center obviously.
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