#insearchoflosttime

(Insert here @courtneylove's¹ tender, low-growling: "Well I went to school / in Olympiaaaaa…") ✴️✴️✴️ Ex-Olympia resident who 🏳️‍🌈 founded city's pride march🦄 26+ years ago lollygags in @evergreenstcol parking lot, for want of sufficient courage to GET OUT OF HER DAMN CAR & thus, SIMPLY SET FOOT on the campus to which, 3 decades earlier, still too young to vote, she'd moved (sight unseen and following 3,000+ miles' travel)—arriving at C- Dorm with little more than her trusty knapsack of intergenerational trauma and poverty.² NEWS AT 5. (Maybe!) ✴️✴️✴️ _________ ¹ EVEN THOUGH Hole's (Lord goddess, let us never say 'seminal') harsh-gorgeous "Live Through This" didn't come out until the year after I was reported to Washington state police as a missing person. (If we can each survive our things, then I should DAMN sure be allowed cast that album back in time, to when I most needed it.) HAHAyesreallyohgod. ² SPOILER: First effort to climb Mount Baccalaureate was derailed by the violence of my 3rd year, followed by the homelessness of my 4th—having successfully hid the latter problem, all that final Fall term, from my (rightly!) renowned sociologist professor, Stephanie Coontz. (Who is, uh, speaking here today. So. This should be… interesting?) GAHHHHHHH ___ 👞👞 _____👞👞 __________👞👞 _______________👞👞 #Icandoit #probably #PTSD #olywa #LGBTQ #anxiety #olympia #notdeadyet #imasurvivor #personalhistory #portablecrucible #returntoevergreen #keeponkeepingon #insearchoflosttime #dissociationstation #imaginaryhomelands #JesusGetOutOfTheCarAlready (at The Evergreen State College) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpK6Q_xg1cz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6vg7ewsegs03

A great friend is the one who encourages you to walk out of your comfort zone and follow you ‘til the end. Thank you, Mai! 😘😘😘 Image by Lanhue.com #comewalkwithlan #lanhue #huế #insearchoflosttime #imperialcity #huecity #vietnam (at Hue, Vietnam)

Adam: "The 6 train has been my train since 1980. I'm terrified to think about how many times I've walked through these turnstiles and that I'm old enough to remember tokens. The subway experience and also the experience of New York City has changed so much. My book is a memoir and about the eternal pilgrimage of young couples who come to the city to build a life. The past is always a different place where they do things differently. Going from being a stranger to being a citizen – that's a universal experience. As odd as it sounds, I think Proust is all about that. In Search of Lost Time is one of my favorite books and about a young boy becoming educated and disillusioned. It's a timeless story, young people becoming sophisticated and then wishing they never had." #AdamGopnik #AtTheStrangersGate #Proust #InSearchOfLostTime / @theubc for #subwaybookreview #newyork 🗽 (at 86th Street (Manhattan))

As of this evening on the 1st of October 2022, I completed reading In Search of Lost Time Volume I Swann’s Way~ By Marcel Proust of course It’s an accomplishment and a journey that thrilled me from the beginning, when I learned about the Proustian Moment! He has a few things in common with the Buddha. (: I have to confess I took this on during the initial year of the pandemic, so yes, it took me two years, but it was well worth the dedication. (Reading other books simultaneously) There’s such incredible attention and lavish detail. I plan to read Virginia Woolf’s, The Waves” next, but hope to be ready for the next volume, “In Search if Lost Time, Volume II, Within A Budding Grove,” after that. Who has read “Swann’s Way,” and what did you think? Who has read the complete set? What was that like? I’m very curious! It’s been brilliant so far. Are you a writer? Yours truly, LS’s imagination #insearchoflosttime #swannsway #proust #seekingtruth #buddha #awakening #madeleinecookie #proustianmoment #elated #october #first #2022 https://www.instagram.com/p/CjMzcn_uxch/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

P. S. Thanks to my friend Tom Wilson for encouraging (demanding) that I finally read it!

"'I needn't feel I've spent the day too badly; the time spent in the company of this young woman has not been wasted, since I have had from her — gracious things which cannot be bought too dear — a rose, a scented cigarette, a glass of champagne.' I thought this because it seemed to me that such thoughts would lend an aesthetic flavour to these hours of boredom, and so justify and redeem them. I ought perhaps to have been aware that the very need of a justification to make my boredom bearable was sufficient proof that my feelings were anything but aesthetic." ~ #theguermantesway #proust #marcelproust #arememberanceofthingspast #insearchoflosttime #rose #cigarette #champagne #foodinbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CIN7hJIgNHH/?utm_medium=tumblr

"...she directed a doleful look of thanks to 'her' young footman, who was ingratiating himself with her by a 'Come, Madame, a few more grapes, they're 'eavenly', then went straight to open the window on the pretext that it was too hot 'in this wretched kitchen'." 🍇 "... occasionally the small fragment of nature from which the food had been extracted, the scaly-surfaced stoup of the oyster with its few remaining drops of sea water, or the gnarled stem and yellowed branches of a bunch of grapes, still enveloped it, inedible, poetic and distant as a landscape, evoking in the course of our meal the successive images of a siesta beneath a vine -trellis and a boat trip on the sea..." 🍇 #theguermantesway #proust #marcelproust #arememberanceofthingspast #insearchoflosttime #grapes #foodinbooks (had trouble sharing IG posts for a while - catching up on old posts this into is from Nov 2020) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHVTNvogSBi/?utm_medium=tumblr

"My mother was counting greatly upon the pineapple and truffle salad. But the Ambassador, after fastening for a moment on the confection the penetrating gaze of a trained observer, ate it with the inscrutable discretion of a diplomat, and without disclosing to us what he thought of it." ~ #proust #marcelproust #rememberanceofthingspast #insearchoflosttime #withinabuddinggrove #clothboundclassics #penguinclothboundclassics #foodinbooks #pineappletrufflesalad #truffles https://www.instagram.com/p/CGMuQeKASK4/?igshid=ulsouwryg3rg