The 20th Century produced two great novels, by which all other novels are judged: Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” and James Joyce’s “Ulysses”. For your evening enjoyment, some selections from Proust’s gargantuan work. (And a bit of funny at the end.)
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The madeleine scene
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Alan Rickman reading Proust
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Proust on lost time
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Alain de Botton – How Proust can change your life
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Monty Python – All-England Summarize Proust Competition
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From the sublime to the ridiculous. Chat away!
The Obama Diary 
Woooot! #FORWARD
Congrats, Dudette!! 🙂 🙂
Hey There Africa! Thanks! 😀
Good evening to my favorite Librarian! Thank you for this marvelously literate post! 😀
Girl, you hot-stepped into first real fast – way to go!
Just tryin’ to be like you, Girlfriend! 😀
😯 O no, don’t do that – all that musical expertise and nerdy geekiness would immediately be lost.
VeeeeeCeeeee, a TODer just emailed me this:
“If I could post pics, I would send this little reminder of how far out VC can sometimes be! (Far Out in the best of all possible ways, I mean!) 🙂 ”
😆
Hey, I recognize the artist! [Guess that means I’m not as far out in the clouds as y’all think.] 😀
You appear to have no ears VC. VC? CAN YOU HEAR ME?
No. WhatDIDyousay?
😆
An ethereal beauty who’s spirit lifts all who come in contact with her. 😀
Aaaww, that’s sweet! I was going to say: head in clouds, but yours was kinder!
Well yours was what I was ACTUALLY thinkin’ 😀
You’re lucky Cloudy Head has left to eat 😆
Tee-hee! 😀
You are most welcome, geek goddess!
😀 😀 😀
Thank yooooou LL!!!
You’re welcome, Boss Cheesy Poofs!
Huff! Puff! Puff! Ma-aade it!
Thank you, LL!!! 🙂
Heart-pounding, seat-grabbing, breathtaking SCIENCE!!!! 😀
woo hoo! #GOSPACEGO!!
https://twitter.com/PeopleAreAwesum/status/407624238540288000
Talk about “Unselfie” …
https://twitter.com/PeopleAreAwesum/status/405779889803902976
OK all these – water works
Ignore the Mike Allen payola. There is NO conflict of interest there. *snicker*
Just one of a librarian’s frustrations…
I saw that ad! I howled!
LOL!!!!
Did you see this one? I followed one of the other links from this video. I kept waiting for her to hit him over the head with something – the book or the flowers
Do you watch much of David Mitchell vc? – I find he is British Comedy to the core.
Never seen him before, 99ts. I actually do not watch TV, at all, and very, very rarely watch movies. (My tolerance for unrealistic acting is very low.)
Check Youtube for some clips – I see him there more than on TV – but first found him on the UK show QI
His reality is often shown on “Would I lie to you” – also on Youtube
Last movie I went to was in the 1990s with daughter – before that it was Star Wars (original). Not sure why I gave them up cause as a child/teenager it was the big saturday event to go to the movies 🙂
you should watch some mel gibson movies. That’ll teach ya.
Teach me what?
life is not always a bed of roses, missy.
I already know THAT – by the fact that there have been no thorns in my
bedlife.Hilarious!
Okay – that’s cute, even though it would totally make my blonde smart daughter mad!
Good for him! I remember this one from a couple (?) of years back. I wonder what that young man has been doing since then.
Congrats on 1st, Dudette!!!
Thank you, LL for posting such interesting content!!
Thanks Bob! Good to see ya!
🙂
‘ …. sprang to life from my cup of tea ….’ Proust does it as good as it has ever been done ….
In summary ….
… they’ll never escape that legacy – a legacy of greed, hate and willful disregard for the lives and quality of life of millions of Americans.
#TrustBarack
Truth.
Ka-Boom.
Yay! Love Mama & The Mooks! Miss ’em! 😀
X 22,593,177
Yo Tally! Did you see my tweet – or more importantly, the message that Mighty Pamela was looking for you? She left it on a previous link.
Oui Madame!!! I am ON IT.
Okey-dokey, 😀
Congrats Dudette on #1! Looks like it’s your and LL’s thread of awesomeness this evening:)
Thank you Kind Friend!
Yes indeed, our LL is on a Master Librarian Roll of Awesome tonight! 🙂
righteous rant from Garrison
it would help though if I pasted the tweet.
I LOVE these people (and dogs) are awesome tweets!!!
Me too carolyn. We need to spread the good news about good people (and pets) more! 🙂
Dudette – you are on an Awesum roll this day. 🙂
I thank you Sir! 🙂
Sir? could we change sexes – guess I need another codename 🙂
Oh darn. I was looking at someone else as I typed.
Thought I’d get through just one thread without a screw-up tonight Well, my streak continues!
Deepest apologies!
No no – you need never apologize Dudette – you add so much to every thread – as I’ve mentioned before – as your late night is my day – I luv your posts.
😀
Congrats Dudette for Your Gold 😉
Jay “Clark Kent” Carney’s 12-03-13 WH presser
Thanks Nena!
All these Tweet-pics are just heartwarming. Thanks Dudette. The little boy asking for the dad to come home……oh my goodness. The 15 yrs old who saved a little girl…..precious. Just Fantastic. The guy who gave a life saving transplant and lost his chance to play……the sweetest thing ever.
Glad you like ’em! I like the warm gooey feeling they give me. Thought I’d infect some other folks with it. 🙂
One last attempt at babyness—-pink on pink ultra cuteness
I guess I won’t be seeing your girl grandbabe tonight, Dotster.
‘…. The link you clicked on may have expired or you man not have permission t view this page.’
Aw! Email the picture to Chips, dotster3. She’ll post it for you. We wanna see!
I’ve tried and tried to share my cute stuff—-but it’s complicated and all attempts have failed. I’m exhausted by my total failure as a baby photo sharer.
I blame WordPress! Curse them!
Sheesh, I look at my YouTube subscriptions and I see this:
Hey Chips, Billy sent TOD this text msg just for you:
“Some love is just a lie of the heart
The cold remains to what began as a passionate start
And they may not want it to end
But it’s really just a question of when
I’ve lived long enough to have learned
The closer you get to the fire the more you get burned
But that won’t happen to us
Cause it’s really just a matter of trust”
—Love from Billy–
😆 Thank you Billy – so long as you text the words and don’t sing them /runs
I saw that today and I swear, I thought about you. I almost brought it here, but on a second thought, I chickened out.
Then I was going to post that Prince Rogers Nelson would be the Headliner for the Essence Festival in July 2014…….Love Prince, never been to NOLA……but know that some TODers might like this information. Then I forgot and lost track. Now I don’t have the link anymore.
And the winner of the internetz today……. 😆
LOL! Heh – thanks 🙂
#BAM!!! 😀
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People take for granted nowadays so many of the things unions fought hard & won for us all.
https://twitter.com/bdiddly/status/408001579602935808
“Earlier on Tuesday, the Guardian published a letter of support from Carl Bernstein, the U.S. journalist who helped expose the Watergate scandal in the 1970s.”.
LOL. Pathetic carl.
It’s just dawned on me that I`m hungry. BBL. 😀
No way on God’s green Earth would I attempt any of those stunts! LL – thanks for this lovely post.
Juuuuuuuuudith!
Missed you all over Thanksgiving!
I have NO idea, Judith…way past time for me to figure any of that out….pretty amazing:)
Gotta be special kinda of fearless AND crazy!
I’m still working on the latter, but never, even in my youngest most impetuous days, was I ever that much of both! 🙂
This guy Sean just followed me today. I like!
What an honor – congrats Lady Dudette! 🙂
Lovely, Dudette!! He is wise to do so.
Have you listened to any of this?
I love that we have a science-y President!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/03/prince-essence-festival_n_4376978.html?ir=Black+Voices
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Next year’s Essence Festival is getting a dose of music royalty from Prince.
The “Purple Rain” singer-songwriter is headlining the 20th annual festival, a celebration of black music and culture being held July 3-6 in New Orleans.
Prince, who performed at Essence in 2004, also headlined this year’s South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. His newest single, “Screwdriver,” debuted earlier this year. Still, Prince is best known for chart-topping hits like “1999,” ”Cool” and “Purple Rain.”
What’s happening tomorrow? The Kennedy Honors?
The Kennedy Center Honors medallions will be presented on Saturday, December 7, the night before the gala, at a State Department dinner hosted by Secretary of State John Kerry.
The Honors Gala will be recorded for broadcast on the CBS Network for the 36th consecutive year as a two-hour primetime special on Sunday, December 29 at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT).
Oooooo! [clap, clap, clap!] Can’t wait to see them all dapper-and-divined out! 🙂
From 2011’s Kennedy Center Honors
[squeeeeeeeeee!]
Correction. Led Zeppelin were 2012 honorees.
this was an awesome performance of stairway – the sisters did great!
Someones should Tweet this out to the universe:) http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017162490
Done! Thank you DF!
Thank YOU, Miss Chips:)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Edward-Snowden-sharpened-his-hacking-skills-in-Delhi/articleshow/26811526.cms
The hacker who shook the US intelligence machinery and had world leaders railing against Washington for spying on them picked up crucial skills in India. Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor-turned-whistleblower, spent a week in New Delhi training in core Java programming and advanced ethical hacking. It’s this training that got him certified as an EC-Council Certified Security Analyst (ECSA).
Now hiding in Russia as a fugitive from US law and charged with espionage for leaking documents related to the US surveillance, Snowden trained at offshore IT training and certification provider Koenig Solutions in Moti Nagar, New Delhi in 2010. He flew into India on September 3 from Japan and left for the US on September 9.
The Registration of Foreigners Rule 1939 Form C Hotel Arrival report, a copy of which is with TOI, shows Snowden checked into Koenig Inn run by the institute in Karol Bagh at 2.30pm on September 3. “He paid over $2,000 towards his training fee, lodging and boarding,” said Rohit Aggarwal, founder and CEO of Koenig Solutions. Koenig is an authorized training partner for certification programmes from companies like Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, EC-Council, Citrix and VMware. It has trained over 20,000 foreign IT professionals across five centres in the country and one in Dubai.
Adele has been criminally absent from this blog for quite some time. I intend to correct that this minute!
Thank you Dudette, I love Adele. Been so busy today haven’t had time to catch up. So glad the President is out touting the ACA. It’ll great watching this unfold.
Thank you LL. You’re on today!
C.R.Y.I.N.G.
Too cute! 😀
LL – Lovely post. Thanks so much!
My pleasure!
Chat on!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/12/03/amks-talking-to-himself-night-owl-post/
Update from Cover Oregon: As you know I have been active in the effort here in Oregon to enroll people in the #ACA. The Cover Oregon website has been operational except for enrollment so we’re working with paper here which takes longer. Cover Oregon reports they have a 57,000 completed applications, of those there are now 3500 confirmed enrollments. All of the 57K apps will be processed by Dec. 15. From the Health Care Enrollment Fairs I participated in there were 3000 apps. Separately the Oregon Health Authority reports enrollment of 78,251 persons in the Oregon Health Plan or the Expanded Medicaid provision of the ACA.