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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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…
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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…
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Song of the week: Les Champs-Élysées – Joe Dassin Where do I begin? This was a difficult read, not just because it was our first book of the semester, but also due to Proust’s looooong sentences. I really wanted to like this book, and maybe I would have if I had read the entire thing […]
