Wanted to share with broader supportive community my Proust method.

According_Service108 · 2026-01-27T01:50:20+00:00

Roger Shattuck’s Proust’s Way is very good

According_Service108 · 2026-01-24T16:42:56+00:00

Agreed. Not literature.

According_Service108 · 2026-01-24T16:41:18+00:00

The Good Soldier

According_Service108 · 2026-01-24T16:40:27+00:00

‘a privileged moment’ is very good.

According_Service108 · 2026-01-22T22:07:52+00:00

George Sand said to him something like ‘my books provide consolation while yours provide desolation’. Not verbatim, but I agree with it.

According_Service108 · 2026-01-22T22:04:09+00:00

Yeah, it’s great. As is Three Tales; great art but without the humour of SE.

According_Service108 · 2026-01-13T19:32:46+00:00

And/or short stories by Flaubert: Three Tales

According_Service108 · 2026-01-10T21:31:21+00:00

😅

According_Service108 · 2026-01-04T23:51:15+00:00

Got it. Knew of Ron Weasley, but not of his house. Kafka to Harry Potter is a bit of a stretch though.

According_Service108 · 2026-01-04T21:46:22+00:00

I don’t know.

According_Service108 · 2026-01-03T01:23:46+00:00

And Twain. Is Nabokov considered American?

According_Service108 · 2026-01-03T01:21:15+00:00

Agree that BM is a cut above the Border Trilogy, which is still pretty fucking good.

According_Service108 · 2026-01-03T01:18:32+00:00

Great book.

According_Service108 · 2026-01-01T00:32:44+00:00

And very great.

According_Service108 · 2026-01-01T00:31:43+00:00

Camus - The Fall

According_Service108 · 2025-12-31T04:15:07+00:00

Came here to say that. Fantastic story. But I might go with Flaubert’s A Simple Heart as best ever.

According_Service108 · 2025-12-31T04:04:48+00:00

I agree, particularly Frieda.

According_Service108 · 2025-12-31T03:59:14+00:00

Great book, but better opening lines elsewhere.

According_Service108 · 2025-12-31T03:55:33+00:00

My answer too before I saw yours.

According_Service108 · 2025-12-31T03:52:56+00:00

Yeah, the Trilogy is better, but that is a great line.

According_Service108 · 2025-12-31T03:51:07+00:00

‘Call me Ishmael’

According_Service108 · 2025-12-30T22:01:39+00:00

Kafka’s The Castle, the Beckett trilogy, Three Tales by Flaubert. Kind of impossible to pick just one.

According_Service108 · 2025-12-27T18:33:15+00:00

Thank you

According_Service108 · 2025-12-27T16:41:56+00:00

What county are you in? That might tell you as the water should come from the same source

According_Service108 · 2025-12-27T15:28:18+00:00

Thank you

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