How Proust Can Change Your Life

So really, I have little to say except to share that i'm realizing more and more that in order to love my life more, I require an inexact amount of mental stimulation and goading through reading every day. When i don't respect that need, a funk starts to fester inside -- quiet and discreet-like so you don't really notice it gaining ground till suddenly one day it occurs to you that the world has been less lovely for quite some time now and the ease with which you slide into passive-aggressive, infantile, scape-goating, nothing-is-possible behavior is cause for suspicion and worry...

anyway, i started reading again. this time: How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton. It's labeled self-help literature, but the writing is smart and delicious and not at all standard self-help faire, and the guy takes an in-depth look at some of the ways and means of marcel proust and relates it to relevant human issues and there's lots of potential for revelation and self-betterment here, plus it's just a fascinating read -- a semi-genius distilling a genius, and as if those two things weren't enough, it has occasional illustrations of ladies getting their quotidian exercise by jumping off walls.

I love this book and you should get a copy and start reading it immediately so i don't have to jump the wheel of suffering all by myself.


much love/good nights,
alice