I remember in one summer when I was teenager, I read war and peace three times. I know many young Russians hate it because they were forced to read it. But it is a book that every page indicates there is something cosmic and irreversible afoot.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @Trashwomann
sir, that's just immensely hyperbolical. i mean, it is a great book, every one agrees. but it's like how beethoven is great. you see? :) and Karenina is his best by any means.
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Replying to @lesoiseauxduml @Trashwomann
Greatness is always hyperbolical to the eyes of puny writers like us. Well, I'm not going to argue re his best work. Also his writings on education, nothing beats them other Vygotsky's work.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @Trashwomann
as an all-around puny writer i must say that some greatnesses haven't seemed hyperbolical to me tho. they usually tend to be on the more "feminine" thread. i prefer the bed-ridden, self-indulged, swampy Proust, among the giants for example.
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Replying to @lesoiseauxduml @Trashwomann
You sure will be a great friend with Thomas Murphy who is missing in action on twitter. Bunch of proust-lovers.
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French gossip channel 24/7 plus virgin boy sex ads in between all wrapped by vapid floral prose = Proust
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @Trashwomann
that just broke my heart. not cause you dis-ed Marcel, but because i see now that you are doomed. :)) i read him for the first time btw at probably the same age you'd read war and peace. maybe this is just teenage-wrestling.
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Replying to @lesoiseauxduml @Trashwomann
I just liked that flower playing scene, that's all. What was that flower?
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @Trashwomann
you mean the flower on Odette's chest? i don't remember the flowers name. but that is a great scene. admit it Reza, you just went through half of the Swan on love :))
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Replying to @lesoiseauxduml @Trashwomann
When I was 16. The neotenous human brain is underdeveloped at that age.
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Proust was an emotional exhibitionist par excellence. Just imagine he is your roommate and you have to listen to his nagging voice about his shitty problems all day because he has also insomnia. That's the definition of hell.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @Trashwomann
lol. that goes for at least 70% of novelists i suspect. you must get educated in the art of nagging my friend. it can be a divine form of art. Beckett knew that to full extents.
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you put machos down, but then you go out of your way to make a very Hemingway-ish comment on Marcel. for shame sir, for shame. ;)
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