So "Proust at Rush Hour."
And Proust really depicts this quite marvelously, I think.
'cause Proust is more convincing than Joyce I think when it comes down to the nature of our thinking.
So you took up Proust 's challenge as it were, and you don't really shy away from anything.
I read Proust almost exclusively on the subway.
Though compared to Proust , everything seems terse.
Did I ever finish Proust ?
I am finishing Proust .
I'm still finishing Proust .
He does the Proust questionnaire.
And at the time Proust had no idea how the brain actually worked.
If it weren't for Proust and my compulsion to look up every single unfamiliar word I come across, they would get very little use indeed.
Here are a few entries from my Proust word list.
It was popularized by Marcel Proust in the 1880s.
And in fact when I was reading Proust in my early twenties, a book that really fairly directly inspired this one and which is very, right on the surface about time, I felt bored
Was it tied to that whole Proustian thing, the unknown element in the lives of other people.
Well, so Proust , of course, is the one that's usually referred to because there's
Read in brief spurts, Proust 's 3,000 pages-- well, the 700 I've read so far--
Although in a 300-page stretch in which Proust places under a microscope the narrator's love for his playmate, his pain when he decides to cut himself off
One of my favorite descriptions of the hypnagogic state comes from Proust , from his "Remembrance of Things Past."
So, we were assigned Proust and I was reading Swann's Way and his first volume of the epic and that's really a novel all about memory.
so well that they'd be like she's just like Proust there's nothing new there I always said that would be fabulous but
And people spend more time playing these games than they would reading Marcel Proust .
In the meantime, I've decided to read Proust , yes, "In Search of Lost Time," also known as "Remembrance
My life yields up few moments that are conducive to the concentration and discipline that Proust requires.
I have to ask, did you ever finish Proust ?
Did you ever finish Proust ?
I was asking that question was that I had finally read all of Proust 's novels.
That's the famous passage, but what I really love in Proust is another passage that really inspired me, which was about the experience of drinking
So with these unanswered questions, I will now read to you "Proust at Rush Hour."
And, so, even though Proust didn't know about neuroanatomy, somehow he was able to intuit these wires and he was able to realize that, yes, smell and taste are uniquely nostalgic.
And I think also, as I said, Proust was so important as an inspiration.
The other thing is music plays a huge part in Proust 's novel, both as a plot element and as an organizational principle.
have two chunks as the epigraph and one of them is, to quote Proust , "The unknown element in the lives of other people is like that of nature, which each fresh scientific discovery
I wonder if our consciousness, our stream of conscious thought is kind of like a long Proustian sentences.
I can tear through a contemporary novel of 200 to 300 pages in the time it takes to read 25 to 30 pages of Proust .
And he, in the context of the talk, he spoke about Proust and reading Proust
And then she said to him, the thing is, I find reading Proust in the original French much more fulfilling.
And so what's really powerful about this is what it helps us see with new eyes, I guess Proust would say, as to the way people
In fact, this stigma itself is probably a fairly recent phenomenon since authors from Laurence Sterne, and Jane Austin, to Marcel Proust , and Virginia Woolf all
But all of them, all of the entrepreneurs I know, both social and innovation, espouse to my favorite Marcel Proust quote, another Frenchman, who
There's some class and I call it-- what do I call it?-- refractory love, where people like in Proust where people
I'm very happy and very proud to welcome Jonah Lehrer who is the author of three books, 'How We Decide', 'Proust Was a Neuroscientist' and most recently 'Imagine', which is about
There wasn't a whole lot of neuroanatomy and yet, in the last decade, neuroscientists have come along and figured out that the reason why, it's not called the Proust effect, why
of writing this book and it's really kind of the same, kind of the same inspiration that inspired William Faulkner and Marcel Proust and, a colonoscopy.
'Cause you're talking about Proust and you