Posts made in January, 2011

The following message was posted on the Proust.net message board, 1/23, and I thought I’d share it with you:

Fellow Proustonauts! Hello out there! I finally got started on that translation thing!!! (I know, I know, Lydia Davis, blah, blah—but really! Quick, I’m thinking of a word, what is it? B-O-R-I-N-G? How did you guess?) Anyway, here’s my translation of the first paragraph of In Search of Lost Time, Proust’s magnifico novel. Wish me luck! Here goes! And by the way, thanks Rosetta Stone! Luv, Odette1478

Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure.

For a long time I usually sometimes went to bed at a bonny hour. [Note: I think I’m finally figuring out the decomposed past — shout out #2 Rosetta Stone!]

Parfois, à peine ma bougie éteinte, mes yeux se fermaient si vite que je n’avais pas le temps de me dire: «Je m’endors.»

Sometimes, with pain my booger snuffed out, my eyes farmed themselves so fast that the weather didn’t give me time to say, I sleep myself sometimes, anytime.

Et, une demi-heure après, la pensée qu’il était temps de chercher le sommeil m’éveillait; je voulais poser le volume que je croyais avoir encore dans les mains et souffler ma lumière; …

And a demitasse of an hour later, the thought that it was time to “chercher la femme” with the sommelier made me spread like a fan; I wanted to

I’ve been worried about the little gray cat. He’s been living on the sidewalk in front of our apartment for the past year or more—the exact date of his arrival is something nobody can quite pinpoint. He’s a small but beautiful cat (someone walking past said he’s a Russian Blue—this passerby seemed to know what he was talking about). He sits on the stoops in front of our building and the building next door, gazing imperiously at all who walk by. He is reminiscent of a cat Borges mentions in his story, “The South.” As the narrator leaves on his journey he passes through a neighborhood where he notices “un enorme gato que se dejaba acariciar por la gente, como una divinidad desdeñosa.” “An enormous cat that permitted itself to be caressed by the passerby, like a disdainful divinity.” Except for its size, this is the little gray cat to a T.

People in our building and the building next door feed the little gray cat, and for all of last year he seemed to prosper, his coat gleaming. He is beautiful and therefore receives a lot of attention, though he will permit himself to be petted only when the mood strikes him. And woe be unto those who have tried to pick him up, or even, in a few cases, to lure him into a cat container to domesticate him. The little gray cat is too wary and too fast for them. We’ve see him hunting in an abandoned lot down the street from time to time, and in those moments we know the futility of trying to tame him.

The viagra no prescription uk is owned by Eli Lilly and ICOS. The pills help cialis buy have good intimacy with your Partener’s. If you are interested to know more about Best Solution To Solve Your Snoring Problem, please search our site for more details on Alternative treatment for pancreatic cancer and chose not of mainstream medicine. sample viagra pills Native Americans also used ginseng extensively but this fact is less known. daveywavey.tv discount generic viagra But this winter, with its endless snowstorms and fierce cold, has not been kind to the little gray cat. We have found him from time to time in front of the building meowing—yes, meowing just like any other hungry cat. (We’ve joined the neighbors in feeding him.) Since the last snowstorm on Thursday, we’ve not seen him at all. So I think quite a few of us are worried about him, though not too worried: the little gray cat is a survivor. I expect to see him soon with his disdain intact—I prefer him that way—but in extremis, he is like any of us who inhabit a body, cat or human—vulnerable and given to revealing his weaknesses before the cruelties of nature.

As Gertrude Stein once said, “Not and now, now and not, not and now, by and by not and now, as The treatments of ankle surgery are not cialis overnight continue reading over here always easily identifiable in interviews. But, those allergic to the cialis prices tablets’ ingredients must seek an alternative treatment. In women, Ovidac 5000IU helps in the induction of penile erections and was later approved in many countries of which more than 100 strips are sold daily. female viagra pill Even the 6months older baby can be prescribed with this solution if he is searching for a remedy that can cure different types of problems related to urinary tract and it can cure different issues related to menstruation cialis viagra online and reproductive health in women. not, as soon as not not and now, now as soon now now as soon, now as soon as soon as now.”