Return of the Spider
Not finished with the spiders yet. Promise I’m not looking for them. But…after reading the NBCC list of criticism winners I scuttled over to the bookshelves to find 2001 winner Malcom Bowie’s Proust Among the Stars. In it, we find this quote from the narrator of Le Temps retrouve:
the poet was right when he spoke of the ‘mysterious threads’ which are broken by life. But the truth, even more, is that life is perpetually weaving fresh threads which link one individual to another and one event ot another, and that these threads are crossed and recrossed, doubled and reboubled to thicken the web, so that between any slightest point of our past and all the others a rich network of memories gives us an almost infinite variety of communicating paths to chose from. (Vl, 428)
May 28th, 2009 at 8:58 AM
All these spiders and webs…it’s enough to make one suspect some kind of “design.”