{"id":415,"date":"2012-10-30T20:34:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T00:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/?p=415"},"modified":"2012-10-30T20:34:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T00:34:31","slug":"reaction-to-proust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/2012\/10\/30\/reaction-to-proust\/","title":{"rendered":"reaction to Proust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed reading the selections by Proust. While it was difficult to follow because of the author\u2019s writing style, I thought that it was interesting to read and provided a couple key insights into the study of time. In the selections from \u201cTime Regained,\u201d I found the following quote relevant to our study of time: \u201c\u2026I experienced them at the present moment and at the same time in the context of a distant moment, so that the past was made to encroach upon the present and I was made to doubt whether I was in the one or the other.\u201d This quote reminded me of the scene we watched in class from the <em>Marriage of Figaro<\/em>. The Count was explaining to Susanna and Basilio what had happened to him the day before, when the Count had discovered Cherubino in a place he wasn\u2019t supposed to be. While the Count was telling this story, he again discovers Cherubino in another place he wasn\u2019t supposed to be. I think this quote from the Proust readings describes that collision of past and present that we witnessed in the movie. I think the other selections from Proust, \u201cSwanns Way,\u201d highlights the importance of memory to the human experience and our perception of time. The madeleine contained a memory for the narrator. Similarly, a material object can contain a memory for us. It doesn\u2019t even have to be a material object; a memory can be contained in a song as well. In this way, time becomes manifested in the material world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed reading the selections by Proust. While it was difficult to follow because of the author\u2019s writing style, I thought that it was interesting to read and provided a couple key insights into the study of time. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/2012\/10\/30\/reaction-to-proust\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}