{"id":421,"date":"2012-11-04T16:24:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T21:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/?p=421"},"modified":"2012-11-04T16:24:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T21:24:25","slug":"experience-of-reading-proust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/2012\/11\/04\/experience-of-reading-proust\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience of reading Proust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As told, I read the Proust article twice. The first time through was solely to become accustomed to the language and the second was for content. I read it the first time and only \u00a0seemed to pick up certain words and phrases. I remembered lots of color diction and dreamy phrases that seemed like a fiction story. The subject seemed to change quite rapidly as well much like a music video or a compilation of several consecutive dreams. I also took note of the many instances where the narrator fell asleep and woke up again in a different place. I had no real context initially to connect all these different excerpts of information because I merely skimmed the material, but that would change.<\/p>\n<p>I found the second time reading the article to be much more interesting and thought provoking. I can closely relate to the first few pages because of an observation in my own personal experience. Every time I go to the beach, I have the exact same experience described by Proust of waking up and having no idea where I am. I&#8217;ve often thought about why this only happens to me at the beach and no where else. Almost every morning I wake up there, I have to spend a few seconds to remember where I am. It&#8217;s not an unpleasant feeling though; I just remain confused until I remember where I am or open my eyes. Then it&#8217;s a big relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As told, I read the Proust article twice. The first time through was solely to become accustomed to the language and the second was for content. I read it the first time and only \u00a0seemed to pick up certain words &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/2012\/11\/04\/experience-of-reading-proust\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1731,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","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\/421","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\/1731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}