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September 24, 2006
Do I Just Need to Belong?
I've been spending the afternoon shopping for book clubs online today, because obviously, the one thing I don't do enough of is reading. I should point out that this fruitless searching, not to mention writing this post, is merely a procrastination from reading I should be doing. Anyway. This whole absurd enterprise began with my idle curiosity in the Proust Discussion Group at the Boston Athenaeum. Before you point out how lame/pretentious this is, I should mention that my sister joined the Proust Society which meets at the Merc in New York, and finished the entirety of La Recherche in only about 6 months time. Ever since then, she's been bugging all her friends to read the book so she'll have someone to talk about it with. Which is reason enough for me to go and read several thousand page novel, but it would require me making taking a 5-mile bike ride each way between classes once a month to talk about said novel for an hour. I'm giving it serious consideration.
Posted by tony at September 24, 2006 3:20 PM
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Side - Once you finish La Researche, you and I can go on to become extreme elitists and form a club to read the entirity of Balzac's Comodie Humaine
Posted by: Syl at September 24, 2006 6:24 PM
Posted by: ben at September 24, 2006 7:31 PM