Maillot jaune

Current page: Loitering betwixt and between Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove
Pages read since last post: None
Running total of days reading Proust: 16
Other books read since last post: The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios by Yann Martel

Firstly, don't bother with the Martel. Some interesting ideas for short stories but written whilst a student... and believe me, it shows.

Secondly, and the main point of this post, some decisions regarding regulation of Proust-reading have been decided upon, by email correspondence, sadly, not on this blog. I will therefore summarise.

1. Upon the completion of a volume, the individual will pause in his search of lost time, to allow the others to catch up.
2. Proust-reading will then recommence, hopefully in synchrony, one month after the first completion (i.e. 8th November for Budding Grove), unless the remaining individuals finish sooner, in which case the new volume can begin sooner. The start date is very much a movable feast, however, providing all parties are in agreement.
3. The tally of days spent reading Proust for each individual will therefore be halted upon completion of a volume, and restarted on the new commencement date.

These rules should thus give the most accurate quantification of one's efficiency of Proust consumption, will maintain coherence in the blog and allow for gentlemanly breaks in Proust for the reading of more frivolous material, which is a good thing, providing one doesn't select the early short stories of a one-hit-wonder Booker Prize winner.