Reply tony # there is a lot of reference to tea gowns in Proust, which is what led me to this site. From Wordnik.com. [The Tea Gown | Edwardian Promenade] Reference
But Proust is able very convincingly to pick it apart. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Lecture - Literature 2001] Reference
I love that scene in Proust of Marcel reading in the garden. From Wordnik.com. [A Song of Thanksgiving « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
Proust is a master of happy amplification, and I would like to go back to Against Sainte-Beuve just for a little. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Lecture - Literature 2001] Reference
I'm just going to go through this, what's called the Proust questionnaire. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2005] Reference
I recall Proust has been mentionned too ; Proust is well known for sentences two-pages-long which do nothing but describe. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 5: The Fires of Heaven (1993)] Reference
They originate from the town of Commercy, France, and they have been immortalized in Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past”. From Wordnik.com. [Madeleines « Baking History] Reference
Margaret – I agree with you, Proust is wonderful. From Wordnik.com. [The Literary Note Meme « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
The New York Times called Proust was a Neuroscientist. From Wordnik.com. [Emdashes] Reference
The Big Sleep and Murakami's novel, some of which are in the same orbit as the "Proust" connection. From Wordnik.com. [The Valve] Reference
The point is even more obvious with less gifted writers than kafka, such as Proust, Tolstoy, or Flaubert. From Wordnik.com. [Wet Asphalt] Reference
I would have preferred something by Proust or Gide. From Wordnik.com. [Sing for Me] Reference
Some people are reading Larsson or re-reading Proust. From Wordnik.com. [Patricia Zohn: Off the C(H)uff: Jennifer Egan Talks About A Visit From the Goon Squad] Reference
People refer to this relationship as the "Proust Effect.". From Wordnik.com. [Feeling sad? Make toast] Reference
E. BRADLE.: Oh the Proust book, "Remembrance of Things Past.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Bradley Drops Out of Presidential Race, Pledges Support to Gore - March 9, 2000] Reference
Mahnmut, are you talking about Proust or his Marcel-narrator?. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
So what did Proust divine about humans ahead of neuroscientists?. From Wordnik.com. [Art, Science and Brains] Reference
One critic hailed it as Proust rendered into English by P.G. Wodehouse. From Wordnik.com. [Britain Through Bohemian Eyes] Reference
I have too short an attention span to ever finish "The Illiad" or Proust. From Wordnik.com. ['A Golden Age of Books'] Reference
Why Proust when you can spend all of your existence studying Shakespeare?. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
My own little Proust is back home to roost when I smell some hot buttered. From Wordnik.com. [Limericks] Reference
But there is another side to the picture, which you (and Proust) don't show. From Wordnik.com. [Life Before Stonewall] Reference
This Proust looks like the Classics Illustrated comics of our midcentury youth. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
He sipped his coffee and thought of what he would be teaching in an hour: Proust. From Wordnik.com. [Apple] Reference
Proust as of his fore-runner Petronius, people will keep the things they like best. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference
Growing up in his native Florence he read all of Proust, in French, at the age of 13. From Wordnik.com. [Tales From Mythology] Reference
Why am I writing about Proust to people who are rushing home to catch "American Idol"?. From Wordnik.com. [As Seen On Tv] Reference
Perhaps the most original of the brain books, though, is "Proust Was a Neuroscientist.". From Wordnik.com. [Art, Science and Brains] Reference
If this strikes you asa whimsical project then you must also dismiss Cézanne and Proust. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Hodgkin - the last English romantic painter] Reference
Why did he feel the need to show me his collection of Proust first editions? she wondered. From Wordnik.com. [Nan] Reference
Before long he is seeing a psychiatrist, who has him reading Proust as part of his therapy. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet Lariat] Reference
As anyone who has ever tried to read Proust knows, the French like to repeat themselves. From Wordnik.com. [How to Shampoo in French] Reference
Proust for the assurance that an alloy of tin and lead is less easily oxidized than pure lead. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884] Reference
Anthony Powell's "A Dance to the Music of Time" can be accurately described as plethoric Proust. From Wordnik.com. [Not Your Mom's Book Club] Reference
He read Proust and Capote and biographies of musicians; a full-time librarian tended to his five libraries. From Wordnik.com. [Gianni's World] Reference
You have to reach for comparisons to Tolstoy or Proust to convey just what a captivating experience this story can be. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
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