joke by Proust . 1 (one)

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE INTERNET RUNS OUT

1. wake up forgetting everything
2. curl into a ball
3. evolve into an orb
4. send hallucinogens to your friends
5. separate old socks from new socks

_ _ _ and today's joke by Proust

. . . For the folding seats on its shore and the forms of the monsters in the stalls were mirrored in those eyes in simple obedience to the laws of optics and according to their angle of incidence, as happens with those two sections of external reality to which, knowing that they do not possess any soul, however rudimentary, that can be considered analogous to our own, we should think ourselves insane to address a smile or a glance: namely, minerals and people to whom we have not been introduced.

from The Guermantes Way pg.38 ~ (he is at the opera ((or some sort of musical show))
There was another good joke in the first book, about asparagus.
(The joke is about asparagus, not the book)
(The book does not concern itself solely with asparagus, but contains a joke about that vegetable)

5 comments:

  1. Alexis10 October 2007 at 00:13

    More of these please, a series - 'jokes by Proust'.
    In truth...
    (checks nervously over each shoulder, left and right, for any potential tut-tutting or literary academic shock and disbelief)
    ...I am yet to read any Proust.

    One day.

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  2. Anonymous10 October 2007 at 01:39

    there are not that many proust jokes though. I am not sure even if what i chose as a proust joke is one (a joke, ).

    I heard you should read proust once when you are young(ish) and then when you are near your end-time, so you should start soon. Look for the asparagus joke.

    or, if you meet proust on the road, then kill him

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  3. Anonymous10 July 2010 at 14:29

    I think there are some pretty funny things, but they always come about in that roundabout way. Some things he says about M. de Charlus are pretty funny. Something like "He seemed like the sort of person who should always be asked 'Why are you yelling? Why are you so offensive?'" M. de Charlus is a pretty funny character all around. I think a lot of the characters are funny, like the guy he meets at a party who thinks that he's a famous person or something and keeps winking and bowing to him. I don't know, he makes a very accurate picture of a braggy guy who can't wait to meet a person he supposes that he can talk about to his friends later, something about having a monocle and "licking his chops in anticipation" created a funny image in my mind. Why would you want to kill Proust?

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  4. MALALE10 July 2010 at 19:27

    I hadn't reached Charlus when I made the above post thing. Most of the 4th volume certainly seems funny. I almost feel proust was writing with a GLEE , everything is exuberant and there is all the people chatting to each other.

    I have not finished the 4th book quite yet. I hear the 5th is full of torment. I dont even own the 5th or 6th yet, perhaps I am delaying my reading. I should get them from somewhere quick and cheap and then start 4 again.

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  5. Anonymous17 April 2024 at 12:58

    i got lost in a a dinner party in book 4 but haven't returned yet, restart entirely is an option

    kill proust, is, if you meet buddha on road then kill him

    is is a zen thing ?

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