Also really want to read #proust, #insearchoflosttime came up so much in #therememberedpart. #rodrigofresán 🖤
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He senses that, for once, for the first time, given a choice, it'll be better that way.
He chooses X.
He chooses none of the above.
He chooses not-knowing.
He chooses the real part.
He chooses the true part.
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So, what he proposed and accepted and wrote was something else. Instead of different endings he proposed different alternate beginnings
Beginnings that started like this: And in the end...
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The Karma men with their hair coated in a thick layer of styling gel ... and all of them stuffed into aquamarine and pastel-pink polo shirts, proclaiming that they all share the same mystical power animal: the Lacoste crocodile.
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Karma as subject and verb.
"Karma and Karma and Karma and Karma," the Karmas repeat as if Karma were the Alpha and Omega and, first and foremost and when all is said and done, The Surname. The best and the only worthy way of referring to themselves.
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One final memory in the beginning of feeling so Prousticized and Proustified and Proustilian. The absolute and total concentration of his memory that, if he was lucky, would preserve the memory of Ella forever.
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Last words that he'd memorized when, many years later, he reread the novel in English: "And somewhere at the bottom he fell into darkness. That much he knew. He had fallen into darkness. And at that instant he knew, he ceased to know."
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Better not to think-better to remember to forget about that Combray Syndrome and that his mind was going about what he had inside that brain with which he thinks that it's better not to think about that.
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The poetic Vladimir Nabokov who'd had Poe and his "Annabel Lee" very much in mind when writing his Lolita
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He Whose Name Must Not Be Mentioned.
The Son of Penelope.
The other desaparecido in the family. He'd said "Cedric" and the boy had heard "Cerdic."
And Cedric went and Cerdic stayed.
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he couldn't stand those novels that imposed the face of the protagonist on readers by putting it on the cover, depriving them of imagining the physiognomies of their own heroes or villains).
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And so, the fuel of memory feeding, at last, the engines of the present, because, as someone once said, "There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now."
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All of what-Time is an asterisk... Same as it ever was... Here comes the twister...Look out! 'Cause here she comes...was coming now and all of what was already here.
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Within in this schema-as you already know and as Leo Tolstoy postulated are happy and sad families, families who unleash stormy odysseys or take pleasant strolls.
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Because, after all, reading was one of those "soft" and recreational drugs that ended up being a gateway to the "hard" and demanding drug of writing. And so, by the time you were aware of it, you were already hooked.
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For example: "He remembers that on his nights of insomnia he would play at swapping the meanings of words until he'd created a new language, language that he could still speak but that was different.
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No need for me to translate it, right? Because you only read in English and you like to insert all those words in italics in different languages in your books, right?
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After all, for initiates, advertising was nothing more than the glorification and professionalization of that great primitive and childish impulse: telling lies.
Fairy tales in the hands of wizards.
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The library is the only true homeland
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And, there, to be someone else, to be everyone else, to be like Malcolm Lowry-like him, another compulsive notetaker when he said he was like "a Mexican dreaming of the white cliffs of Dover."
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Like that. Neither now nor then but both at the same time. Neither here not there but a combination of the two: seeing himself there with the eyes of here. In that place but from this location.
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"Now producing the books is almost the beginning of your real responsibilities which are to get out and sell it." And Updike added: "If an artist had a set of opinions to purvey he'd be a preacher or a politician.
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And he's so tired and feels so alone, it's been a long, long, long time and how did he and where did it all go and now it's time to say good night, good night everybody, everybody everywhere, good night.
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He knows that they're his parents because they look at him in a way that only parents look at their children: with one eye full of love and the other eye full of fear.
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A paragraph from On the Road by Jack Kerouac (whom friends from his childhood nicknamed "Memory Babe" and friends from his youth "The Great Rememberer" because of his prodigious capacity to remember everything
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Remembering forgetting was a pause in the battle. Returning from the front, moving in reverse in the most triumphant of retreats.
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To how-according to the latest studies-every memory was like a small but visible mark on the brain. To how memories are sensitive, volatile matter. To how memories are particles in constant and increasing alteration.
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the color magenta (which, if he remembers correctly, was one of the favorite colors of the synesthetic hearer of colors Vladimir Nabokov, and the most-used word in his books was "mauve," forty-four times)
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