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June 5, 2003
I am sick again. Sick sick sick. Wasn't I sick not too long ago? Yup, that was me. I think I need a vacation. I'm acutally feeling a little better right now. My trusty Alka-seltzer plus cold got me through yesterday, last night and this morning. But has worn off now... without (so far) any problem. I seem to be experiencing a lull in symptoms. Considering that next week is Father's Day week, and the week after that is Harry Potter week, I prudently left work early yesterday, took today off, and am not working again until Sunday. With luck, I will be symptom free by then. And mentally better off.
Replies: 8 comments People who read GEB straight through and uninterrupted by other books miss the point.I find that I do not own Proust and am aghast. And there's a new edition. Can you sell me a set? Posted by Mike @ 06/05/2003 11:14 PM EST Is this the one you're looking at? (I'm using this site as reference... I actually got my old 2vol set free from someone cleaning out their house :) Unfortunately I can't order from UK distributers, so unless someone here in the US picks it up (or has picked it up and I'm just not seeing it... let me know if that's the case), your best bet would probably be amazon.co.uk or some other UK online store (unless you have a local bookstore that does overseas orders). The Modern Library editions I could get for you of course, with the "standard" C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin translation. But if you were going to go that way, it would probably make more sense to buy them used. I'm sure there are books out there in pristine condition that have never gotten the attention/wear and tear they deserve. :)Posted by Elizabeth @ 06/06/2003 08:31 AM EST I must admit, Reading about the new translation makes me very curious...Posted by Elizabeth @ 06/06/2003 08:52 AM EST Someone in the U.S. is supposed to pick it up; I must have misremembered the U.S. pub date. I remember that it was supposed to come from a large house - Penguin, HarperCollins, I'm not sure. Let me know if you see any publicity material about a U.S. edition. I'd like to have the new edition when it does come, and Borders has devoured all the independent general interest bookstores in my part of D.C.Posted by Mike @ 06/07/2003 10:58 AM EST To clarify: yes, that's the edition I read about. I don't remember whether Penguin's going to be the U.S. publisher.Posted by Mike @ 06/07/2003 11:02 AM EST Ah, here we are. Swann's Way is to be published by Viking in September.Posted by Mike @ 06/07/2003 11:10 AM EST Doh! Must have cut-and-pasted without looking. Here's Amazon's info page for Volume One of the new U.S. edition.Posted by Mike @ 06/07/2003 05:08 PM EST Cool! I can indeed sell that to you if you would like. Just email me (eanne at safe-mail dot net) and we can talk details and whatnot.Posted by Elizabeth @ 06/07/2003 07:47 PM EST |
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