Friday, October 29, 2010
From Proust
Often one hears nothing when one listens for the first time to a piece of music that is at all complicated. And yet when later on, this sonata had been played to me two or three times I found that I knew it perfectly well. And so it is not wrong to speak of hearing a thing for the first time. If one had indeed, as one supposes received no impression from the first hearing, the second, the third would be equally "first hearings."
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I still love Proust. And for this very reason.
ReplyDeleteRicoeur's "Time and Narrative" (a challenging philosphical work) is bringing me back to Proust and his profound ideas of time.
ReplyDeleteEmily, I'm thrilled to hear it. As a professor of poetry myself, one of the saddest things I encounter is the misplaced animosity for poetry. If poet isn't pleasurable, it's nothing.
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