This week I've elected to read to page 150. I'm only a third of the way through (it's on Tuesday) before I say anything about the actual book I wanted to mention some things about the actual copy I have.
I checked it out of N.Y.U.'s Bobst Library and am not surprised that it's very worn and written in. I did not expect the emoticons however. Next to the passage where Proust humorously writes that nature had not endowed his grandfather with the capacity to be interested in Swedish collectivism, the previous holder of my book wrote
;-)
in yet another scene where the narrator is taunting his aunts there is
=)
On the margins of page 34 the previous holder wrote of her (I've assumed it's a 'her' but it could just as easily be a 'his') ambivalence towards returning to New York City because she had an exam coming.
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Those emoticons describe the exact feelings I had when reading those passages. Especially the part about Swedish collectivism. And especially the wink.
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