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		<title>My last post</title>
		<link>http://thecorklinedroom.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/my-last-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Abrams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dennis Abrams I&#8217;m going to try and keep this short and sweet.  Proust, among the many things he has to teach us, teaches how to see, not through his  eyes but through our own eyes, and in ways we never imagined possible.  And I have to thank all of you who, through your posts, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecorklinedroom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9692788&amp;post=1571&amp;subd=thecorklinedroom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How To Put Books Down, Concluded</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Abrams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dennis Abrams Why can&#8217;t I quit this blog? I am, I promise, going to wrap things up this week in preparation for the launch next week of Project D &#8212; the four major novels of Russian literary giant Fyodor Dostoevsky.  Until then, for today&#8217;s post, the last section from Alain de Botton&#8217;s Hos Proust [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecorklinedroom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9692788&amp;post=1568&amp;subd=thecorklinedroom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How To Put Books Down, Continued</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dennis Abrams For your holiday weekend reading, further advice on how to put down your Proust and move on, from Alain de Botton&#8217;s How Proust Can Change Your Life: The previous symptoms of the overreverent, overreliant reader were &#8220;That we mistake writers for oracles,&#8221; and &#8220;That we will be unable to write after reading [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecorklinedroom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9692788&amp;post=1564&amp;subd=thecorklinedroom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Proust and the benefits of reading, part two</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Abrams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dennis Abrams A couple of days ago, I posted part of Alain de Botton&#8217;s final chapter in How Proust Can Change Your Life,&#8221; &#8220;How to Put Books Down,&#8221; and specifically the section of that chapter entitled &#8220;The Limitations of Reading.&#8221;  That section ended with a quote from Proust, &#8220;Reading ins on the threshold of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecorklinedroom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9692788&amp;post=1561&amp;subd=thecorklinedroom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The horror of never forgetting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Abrams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dennis Abrams I saw this piece on 60 Minutes last night.  There&#8217;s been a new discovery in the field of memory, known as &#8220;superior autobiographical memory.&#8221;  It&#8217;s very rare, only six people have been identified with it so far, including, oddly enough, actress Marilu Henner.  These people, quite literally, never forget anything that took [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecorklinedroom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9692788&amp;post=1557&amp;subd=thecorklinedroom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Classics for the common reader</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Abrams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dennis Abrams I wasn&#8217;t going to post again until Monday, but I&#8217;ve been thinking and thinking about this piece since I read it earlier this week, and the more I think about it, the angrier I get.  Please read &#8212; I&#8217;ll have comments at the other end. &#8212;- Published on The New Republic (http://www.tnr.com) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecorklinedroom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9692788&amp;post=1553&amp;subd=thecorklinedroom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Proust and the Benefits of Reading</title>
		<link>http://thecorklinedroom.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/proust-and-the-benefits-of-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Abrams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dennis Abrams For your weekend reading pleasure, more from Alain de Botton&#8217;s How Proust Can Change Your Life, and, specifically, to help us all through our Proust withdrawal, more from the chapter &#8220;How to Put Books Down.&#8221; i.  The benefits of reading &#8220;In 1899 things were going badly for Proust.  he was twenty-eight, he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecorklinedroom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9692788&amp;post=1548&amp;subd=thecorklinedroom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;How to Put Books Down,&#8221; Part One</title>
		<link>http://thecorklinedroom.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/how-to-put-books-down-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dennis Abrams Clearly, we&#8217;re all going through Proust withdrawal.  In his book,  How Proust Can Change Your Life, Alain de Botton&#8217;s last chapter is titled &#8220;How to Put Books Down.&#8221;  Herewith, a sampling, including an introduction and one of the signs of addiction and writer worship: &#8220;How seriously should we take books?  &#8216;Dear friend,&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecorklinedroom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9692788&amp;post=1544&amp;subd=thecorklinedroom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Proust, Virginina Woolf, and the dangers of loving a book too much.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dennis Abrams I&#8217;ve been thinking back to one of my first posts, listing the ten reasons why people should join in the reading of reading Proust.  In it I quoted Virginia Woolf&#8217;s famous line, &#8220;My great adventure is really Proust.  Well &#8212; what remains to be written after that?&#8221;   In reading Alain de Botton&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecorklinedroom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9692788&amp;post=1540&amp;subd=thecorklinedroom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A bit of weekend reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Cambridge Companion to Proust, William C. Carter&#8217;s essay &#8220;The vast structure of recollection:  from life to literature&#8221;: In Paris, on Saturday, 3 September 1870, as news of the humiliating defeat of the French by the invading Prussian army at Sedan spread throughout the capital, Dr. Adrien Proust, a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, a grocer&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecorklinedroom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9692788&amp;post=1536&amp;subd=thecorklinedroom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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