Era l'estate del 1921 quando Proust ricevette dalla rivista ?Les uvres libres? la proposta di pubblicare una qualche sua opera inedita. [...] [...] Come poteva farsi tentare da un giornaletto di dubbia reputazione la cui unica qualit? era quella di ... L'inedito / Ecco il Proust censurato / Charlus perde la testa per un tramviere. E madame de Guermantes tenta il suicidio. Il brano era troppo osé per essere pubblicato nella ?Recherche? del grande scrittore francese. ...
After a long, steady courtship they married in a sweet, small, old-fashioned ceremony, and Dorea moved down to Devon to live with Charlus on his family's estate in Devon. They continued to work side-by-side at the Ministry for some time ...
Via Charli Carpenter, an interesting NYT ?room for debate? feature on the question of why don't we care more about the huge number of Americans who die in car crashes. This is sort of a pet peeve of mine. Over 37000 people died in motor .... just can't learn ? if they have no one with a car to let them practice in and come with them. One of my sons probably won't learn to drive, as he's away interstate at University and there's no way we can log 100 hours in vacations. ...
