Why NOT "A screaming comes across the sky"?

[Otto]

They're just as important in my opinion.

The last sentence of "Finnegan's Wake" sets you on a merry-go-round.

2006/8/27, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>:
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> On Aug 27, 2006, at 8:28 AM, Otto wrote:
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> > Yeah, agreed, and it's the only short sentence in Proust's whole book.
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>
> What about the importance of last lines? Nobody ever talks about
> these. But in the  Proust book the last sentence is pretty
> remarkable. Especially the final phrase, which--though part of a
> slightly long sentence (set off by a dash) --is even shorter than
> "for a long time I used to go to bed early."  It too includes the
> concept of time,  but now in an all encompassing sense. Thus the book
> travels from "longtemps" to "dans le Temps." The later currently
> translated literally,  as "in time" though earlier translations had
> "in the realm of time."
>
> Used to keep big chunks of the book on my iPod for falling-asleep
> purposes. It's very soothing. Now I have Finnegans Wake which
> surprisingly is not  soothing or sleep prompting  at all, even though
> it is  sometimes interpreted as a dream.
>
> Just because Proust is soothing doesn't mean it isn't good.
>
> Please excuse  my indulgences.
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>
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> >
> > Otto
> >
> > 2006/8/27, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>:
> >> Just to set the record straight (it's a great beginning):
> >>
> >> "For a long time, I went to bed early."
> >>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> >> From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
> >> Why Ishmael?
> >>
> >> From Proust's madeleines to Du Maurier's Manderley, first lines
> >> set the reader on track - but not always the right one. John
> >> Sutherland ponders the enigma of beginnings . . .
> >>
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