It’s our biennial Taking a Whack at Proust day. Update: Screw you, terrorists, now we’re going to finish Proust.
Update: We’re up to Combray, chapter 2, past the madeleine stuff.
Warning: Profanity
You just brought a philosophy of rigorous self-abnegation to a pastry fight. You are fucked.
John is the new Jon.
We’ve got the new translations in good-looking editions (lucky the three other volumes haven’t appeared or we’d be even more behind than we are already), the tea and the madeleines, now all we need is the stamina to climb all those words.
November 17th, 2015 at 23:36
Your Grace, Jon Stewart will be back in HBO. I don’t know the title or the format of his show. But, the triumvirate of Bill Maher, John Oliver and Jon Stewart in HBO will be epic in comedic and satirical proportions, Your Grace.