#prousttogether
#willacather
#deathcomesforthearchbishop
I remember the grandmother reading these letters of Mme de Sévigné in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.

The cover art is by Harold Von Schmidt. He illustrated a deluxe edition of this book which had 60 illustrations!
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#WillaCather

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This is why I should always put hashtags on separate lines 🙂. So they don’t run into each other.

First book completed in the new year and 2 inspired companion books to start perusing. #slowreader #deathcomesforthearchbishop #georgiaokeeffealife #bloodandthunder

"He observed also that there was no longer any perspective in his memories."
"He was soon to have done with calendared time, and it had already ceased to count for him."
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"A life need not be cold, or devoid of grace in the worldly sense, if it were filled by Her who was all the graces...la rêve suprême de la chair."
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"...the bent head and crouching shoulders of the banjo player, and his seesawing yellow hand, which sometimes lost all form and became a mere whirl of matter in motion, like a patch of sand-storm." 182
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"The thick clay walls had been finished on the inside by the deft palms of Indian women, and had that irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand." 33
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"...a soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of tradition in this soup." 38

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