Wednesday, February 6th

alone

Hamid Drake, drums, Paris, 2010


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lagniappe

reading table

Last night I completed a long, meandering journey I began several years ago, finishing the last of the seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. If you’ve ever thought about making this trip yourself, I have just one word of advice: go. The minutes, and hours, I’ve spent in Proust’s company—often just a few pages at a time—are among the most rewarding, and pleasurable, I’ve had.

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One, two, three. Time, time!

—William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (II, 2, 51)