NP: In Search of Lost Time

[Michael Bailey]

On 1/14/08, robinlandseadel wrote:

> that had made Saint-Loup lose Rachel. . . .
>

Saint-Loup - isn't that "holy Wolf"?  Isn't he the guy with the
noble lineage that the young Proust dreams of meeting, and
then does after get to meet...you can almost see the mist rising
over knights in chain mail reading the description

I was so glad to see something go young Proust's way,
after his dad calls him a wimp & his grandma has that horrid
disease, and there are cattleyas (mooing) everywhere...

>
> . . . .Of the state of mind which, in that far off year, had
> been simply an unending torture to me, nothing survived.
> For there is in this world in which everything wears out,
> everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust,
> that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind
> still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief. . . .
>

so apparently he's even more radically purged of grief
than the Rossetti who gleaned that the woodspurge has a leaf of three...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0189142/
somebody made a really good film of (part of) ISOLT
I was fortunate enough to find this in our library a while back
might even watch it again

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