Wednesday 27 June 2012
June 27 meeting
Hey, everyone! Just another reminder that I won't be at tonight's meeting but please feel free to add any comments about the discussion from tonight's meeting or the previous meeting to this post. See you on July 11th!
Tuesday 5 June 2012
May 30 meeting
Hello, everyone! Before I get to the May 30th meeting, there are some house-keeping items to take care of. We have our meeting room at the Strathcona branch of the Edmonton Public Library booked for the rest of the year with the exception of August. The meeting room will not be available for that entire month because of the Fringe Festival, which uses library space to mount performances. Therefore, we'll either have to take August off or come up with an alternate meeting place.
Second, I will not be able to attend the next two meetings (June 13 and June 27). There shouldn't be a problem with the meeting space, though. If there is, just explain to the library clerk that we have the space booked for the appropriate time but do not have a contract as the dates were sorted out and booked months in advance.
Ok, as for the meeting. We finished discussing The Guermantes Way, which is longest volume in the novel and thus took us forever to get through. The last section of the volume features a very long dinner party scene which is as exasperating to the narrator as perhaps it is to the reader. Once again, we see that all that glitters is not gold and that the world of the Faubourg Saint-Germain ultimately proves dissatisfying and facile to the narrator.
Other topics of discussion revolved around the masterful "red shoes" scene, in which Oriane and Basin downplay the news that Swann is dying so as not to be inconvenienced on their way to a party. For me, the final line in the volume is as devastating as the final line in the "Swann in Love" section of Swann's Way; is this an intentional parallel? Where once Swann was the heartless dismisser of another, now he is being dismissed?
Anyway, time to move on to Sodom and Gomorrah, which we will discuss the beginning of at the next meeting.
Second, I will not be able to attend the next two meetings (June 13 and June 27). There shouldn't be a problem with the meeting space, though. If there is, just explain to the library clerk that we have the space booked for the appropriate time but do not have a contract as the dates were sorted out and booked months in advance.
Ok, as for the meeting. We finished discussing The Guermantes Way, which is longest volume in the novel and thus took us forever to get through. The last section of the volume features a very long dinner party scene which is as exasperating to the narrator as perhaps it is to the reader. Once again, we see that all that glitters is not gold and that the world of the Faubourg Saint-Germain ultimately proves dissatisfying and facile to the narrator.
Other topics of discussion revolved around the masterful "red shoes" scene, in which Oriane and Basin downplay the news that Swann is dying so as not to be inconvenienced on their way to a party. For me, the final line in the volume is as devastating as the final line in the "Swann in Love" section of Swann's Way; is this an intentional parallel? Where once Swann was the heartless dismisser of another, now he is being dismissed?
Anyway, time to move on to Sodom and Gomorrah, which we will discuss the beginning of at the next meeting.
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