On Sep 14, 2006, at 10:49 AM, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote: > Meanwhile, right now, I'm reading Proust, which oughta give me a > bit of appropiate background into the time period covered by > 'Against The Day. E.g., the Dreyfus Affair. That turn-of-century controversy was the equivalent to the one over the Iraq war today.