Corpsey's Ascetic November.

[Corpsey]

Oh man this thread makes me feel guilty about dropping proust. (As I've dropped Joyce, Tolstoy, Melville, Dickens...)

 

[versh]

I just got Swann's Way in the post the other day.

 

[line b]

Oh man this thread makes me feel guilty about dropping proust. (As I've dropped Joyce, Tolstoy, Melville, Dickens...)

I read about half of Swanns Way and dropped it aswell. Its good but by the end of the Combray section I didnt care about anything happening and wanted to read other stuff. The very first section, those first 50 pages or so where hes still a young child and trying to get his mom to come tuck him in, are fantastic though.

 

[luka]

I'm browsing corpseys YouTube favourites

 

[luka]

 

[luka]

 

[Corpsey]

 

[luka]

"seaman, brothers, bindest mine arms so that though i will it i mayst not wank, though all the nymphs of land and ocean might tempt me"

 

[versh]

 

[luka]

 

[sus]

When is Corpsey gonna be a board force to be reckoned with again

 

[luka]

i dont know but its not the same without him

 

[woops]

I read about half of Swanns Way and dropped it aswell. Its good but by the end of the Combray section I didnt care about anything happening and wanted to read other stuff. The very first section, those first 50 pages or so where hes still a young child and trying to get his mom to come tuck him in, are fantastic though.

i've got 3 different editions of proust and that's about as much as i've read as well

 

[Corpsey]

Had a horrible day yesterday after getting 2 hours sleep the night before (basically woke up at 2am-ish and didn't go back to sleep. I could describe at Proustian length (if I had the time/talent) the strangeness of my experiences by circa 8am, when my body was spasming/shivering with hunger for sleep, and I kept dreaming for a few seconds – at which point my mind would notice sleep oncoming and snap me awake again. It was sort of like an exquisite torture...

Was wanking all day just to escape (for 5 minutes) the horror of having to work. Occasionally I say to myself "right, I'm not watching porn anymore". But I always crumble quickly and then I'm opening 50 tabs of filth...

And I finished the day (to tie this further to the thread) by reading Baudelaire's essays – particularly on the 1855 Paris Exposition Universalle, which is very much worth reading, all him railing against pedants and the "barbarism" of the straight line, as epitomised in Ingre's drawings (vs. romantic cosmopolitanism and energy, epitomised in the drawing of Delacroix).

 

[luka]

jesus christ jack that dont sound very good

 

[woops]

give him the respect he deserves luke it takes singel minded determination to lead that kind of life

 

[woops]

@Corpsey how much drugs/booze fed into this ordeal

 

[woops]

give us an idea of the week leading up

 

[Corpsey]

I think the insomnia has come about partly because I've tried to stop smoking weed in the evenings. Although weed has a tendency to keep me up later than I should be, I think it also probably relaxes my mind a little more than I'm conscious of – last night I was struggling to sleep until about midnight (the anxiety) and I cracked and had a toke of a joint. 30 mins later I was asleep. Not sure if it was the weed or just the cut off point, but...

It's been a depressing week of course, esp. with these restrictions coming back in and the winter weather almost in full swing.

 

[luka]

its been very warm this week. you should go outside. why dont you come to the river today and keep me company. i'll be there by 1.