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jan 14, 2026 Hello RMST 202, my name is Liv and I am a first year engineering student taking this class as one of my humanities electives. I chose this course primarily because I loved reading and literature, up until moving to Canada four years ago and finding myself slacking on reading anything that is […] read full post >>

Combray took me quite a while to finish reading. read full post >>

I went into reading “Combray” fully prepared to be confused, and yet somehow, I was still caught off guard by just how confusing it was. This was not a light “oh, I’ll just read a few pages before bed” kind of text. This was a sit-up-straight, reread-the-same-sentence-four-times, question-your-intelligence kind of read. Proust’s sentences feel like […] read full post >>

Alright! I have my thesaurus open and I’m ready to overuse it. My first impressions reading ‘Combray’ is that I find myself re-reading a lot. Maybe i’ve fallen out of practice but if so, i’m glad this is the start of me rebuilding my trains of thought. Note 1 – The authors writing feels more […] read full post >>

Hello again blog :)) So….. Combray huh….. When I read the part of the introduction that says Proust’s texts are known to be complex because of his “famously long sentences”, I braced myself for a text full of sentences that an English teacher would be disappointed at. But reading this book and seeing one sentence […] read full post >>

I’m currently on the 7th page of Proust’s Combray and it’s making me feel quite sleepy. All this talk of sleep is making me wish I was in my bed instead of at school. Now I’m on page 11, and considering having a little nap. I feel I should be grateful for the ability to […] read full post >>

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We’ve all been there: staring at a sentence so long it feels like a marathon, wondering if we’ve forgotten how to read. That was my perspective when reading “Combray”. I’ll be honest, I spent a significant amount of time rereading paragraphs, looking it up on google, and questioning if I was “doing it wrong.” But […] read full post >>

From my perspective, Combray, written by Proust, is a wonderful mental journey back into the memories of the past. It all started with the narrator lying on the bed, half-dreaming, half-recalling the moments when he was still in Combray during his childhood. It was not a hard book to read for me, but since the […] read full post >>

Having just landed in Vancouver today, I looked at all the assignments I had due this week and found out this blog post was due yesterday, much to my dismay. Fighting the impending jet lag, I went to purchase “Swann’s Way” by Proust and began my reading. Having no expectations or any context of this […] read full post >>

Hi everyone 🙂 My name is Fatima Mudassar, and I’m a 3rd-year Cognitive Systems major with a minor in Economics here at UBC. I’m also an international student from Lahore, Pakistan, and I can speak 3 languages fluently; Urdu, Punjabi, and English. I made the decision to take RMST 202 because I’m really curious about […] read full post >>

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Let me just start off by saying that that was not even remotely what I expected. This felt like a fever dream, I have reread sections and still don’t totally know what the point of some of that was. It felt like it was flitting back and forth between things, or going on tangents, and […] read full post >>

 I found Marcel Proust's "Combray" to be really interesting. It made me think about how dreams can be intertwined with memories. The opening of the story portrayed how the author was walking through memory lane and how dreams are associated with r... read full post >>