2. I particularly liked this observation: "Yet he could with justice claim of A Dance, as Joyce did of Ulysses, that it is a triumphant feat of engineering." It really is: it's amazing how the incidents and characters all weave together to form a larger pattern.
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3. "Dance to Music" really is a cumulative work. You read any one volume and think "that's a nice novel, but not great." But over multiple volumes, it adds up and really gives the feeling of decades (in part because it takes decades to read....)
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One of my favorite book titles ever (although) the volume (10) doesn't stand out, "Books Do Furnish a Room"
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Yep.. what a title!!
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Interesting piece. Have you read this one on Powell and Proust? https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n14/perry-anderson/different-speeds-same-furies …
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My current reading project was spurred by that piece--I hope to refute it!
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