A summer gets into its stride, can I suggest we begin to take steps to end this blogette over the next month or so. I think there is some fun further reading, both of the Proust corpus (OK, only Pleasures and Days), but also related works - this I noticed reviewed in the LRB the other week, but this should be discretionary. However, there is some nonsense out there so some caution needed.
And I would have thought that a shiny new blog starting in (say) July in preparation for an August or September start for Powell is in order. I am transferring thoughts on other reading across to my actual - if intermittant - other blog, so am keen to make sure we start having something lengthy and pretentious to chat about soon.
How about an August start date?
Sometime, late of an evening in March 2007, a regrettable decision was taken. As a consequence of this decision three friends, Dr Andrew Murray, Mr William Garrood (Member of Surrey CCC) and Dr Alexis Haynes would competitively read Marcel Proust's masterpiece A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. The aforementioned Proustanauts were later joined in their endeavour by Mr Elliot Smith, who, aided in part by a bout of pneumonia, promptly overtook them all. The saga continues...
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