Comments on: A little patch of yellow wall http://capreol.us/didyktile/2006/09/17/a-little-patch-of-yellow-wall/ Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:18:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Harold Pinter - The Proust Screenplay « fear of death is intransitive http://capreol.us/didyktile/2006/09/17/a-little-patch-of-yellow-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-13912 Harold Pinter - The Proust Screenplay « fear of death is intransitive Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:04:47 +0000 http://www.capreol.us/didyktile/2006/09/17/a-little-patch-of-yellow-wall/#comment-13912 [...] View of Delft with the virtual magnifying glass is re-linked here. There is a post in didyktile, a little patch of yellow, which has both a brief explanation of Proust/Bergotte and the Vermeer, and two versions  View of [...] [...] View of Delft with the virtual magnifying glass is re-linked here. There is a post in didyktile, a little patch of yellow, which has both a brief explanation of Proust/Bergotte and the Vermeer, and two versions  View of [...]

]]> By: Oxford Huguenot http://capreol.us/didyktile/2006/09/17/a-little-patch-of-yellow-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-125 Oxford Huguenot Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:06:55 +0000 http://www.capreol.us/didyktile/2006/09/17/a-little-patch-of-yellow-wall/#comment-125 I suspect the atrociously pedantic Mr. Proust was merely testing the credulity of his readers-followers. In the throes of death as he was writing <i>La Prisonnière</i>, he was attempting to control his own posthumous legend. Would we swoon in admiration in front of these plain stones? Was our aesthetical sense refined enough to actually <i>die</i> before them, as Bergotte? Well, not mine. But some claim their life was changed by the petit pan... I do admire Vermeer, though. I suspect the atrociously pedantic Mr. Proust was merely testing the credulity of his readers-followers. In the throes of death as he was writing La Prisonnière, he was attempting to control his own posthumous legend. Would we swoon in admiration in front of these plain stones? Was our aesthetical sense refined enough to actually die before them, as Bergotte? Well, not mine. But some claim their life was changed by the petit pan…

I do admire Vermeer, though.

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