Comments on: Madeleines From … Reading Alexander Hamilton http://1heckofaguy.com/2006/03/21/madeleines-from-%e2%80%a6-reading-alexander-hamilton/ If this has made just 1 person spew Pinot Noir through his or her nose, then it's all been worth it Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:00:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: MindSpin http://1heckofaguy.com/2006/03/21/madeleines-from-%e2%80%a6-reading-alexander-hamilton/#comment-33 MindSpin Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:20:06 +0000 http://1heckofaguy.com/?p=54#comment-33 I don't think I made any mention of this being a hopelessly reductive question of the multiple choice variety ;->. I don’t think I made any mention of this being a hopelessly reductive question of the multiple choice variety ;->.

]]> By: DrGuy http://1heckofaguy.com/2006/03/21/madeleines-from-%e2%80%a6-reading-alexander-hamilton/#comment-31 DrGuy Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:50:12 +0000 http://1heckofaguy.com/?p=54#comment-31 And teachers (Mindspinner is a member of that tribe), wonder why they get a bad rap. Just a moment, let me check, … Yep, it was only two days ago that I lauded teachers in pretty darn approbative terms. And what response do I get from a grateful profession? I get what looks suspiciously like a pop test, and an essay question at that. (OK, I realize one could interpret this comment differently, but surely one doesn't indulge in rhetorical questions during 4 AM comment writing, does one?) ;-> So be it. While I'm a loss as a teacher, I was quite the wunderkind when it came to bluffing my way through exams. My paperback edition of <em>Remembrance Of Things Past</em> is a six volume set weighing in at bit over seven pounds with some 3500 pages. I have carefully read, at least four times, the first 100 pages or so of this monster, apparently in the conviction that once I have those first 100 pages down solid (there must be more to the initial section than Marcel missing his mommy's night-night kiss, right?), the final 3400 should be a piece of (madeleine) cake. I have also read loads of allusions to and comments about Proust and his work, if one counts <em>New Yorker</em> cartoons. I deduce from this corpus that Proust's act of recalling his coming of age within these volumes and that metamorphosis itself were intimately melded into a single transformative process. So, the correct answer is (B) More than that. And teachers (Mindspinner is a member of that tribe), wonder why they get a bad rap. Just a moment, let me check, … Yep, it was only two days ago that I lauded teachers in pretty darn approbative terms. And what response do I get from a grateful profession? I get what looks suspiciously like a pop test, and an essay question at that. (OK, I realize one could interpret this comment differently, but surely one doesn’t indulge in rhetorical questions during 4 AM comment writing, does
one?) ;->

So be it. While I’m a loss as a teacher, I was quite the wunderkind when it came to bluffing my way through exams.

My paperback edition of Remembrance Of Things Past is a six volume set weighing in at bit over seven pounds with some 3500 pages. I have carefully read, at least four times, the first 100 pages or so of this monster, apparently in the conviction that once I have those first 100 pages down solid (there must be more to the initial section than Marcel missing his mommy’s night-night kiss, right?), the final 3400 should be a piece of (madeleine) cake. I have also read loads of allusions to and comments about Proust and his work, if one counts New Yorker cartoons. I deduce from this corpus that Proust’s act of recalling his coming of age within these volumes and that metamorphosis itself were intimately melded into a single transformative process. So, the correct answer is (B) More than that.

]]> By: MindSpin http://1heckofaguy.com/2006/03/21/madeleines-from-%e2%80%a6-reading-alexander-hamilton/#comment-29 MindSpin Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:11:22 +0000 http://1heckofaguy.com/?p=54#comment-29 Question is, for what purpose does this catalytic arrest your attention? Is its function reviving the remembrance of things past, or is it that and something beyond that? By such means as these our hearts try to command the attention of our heads. Question is, for what purpose does this catalytic arrest your attention? Is its function reviving the remembrance of things past, or is it that and something beyond that? By such means as these our hearts try to command the attention of our heads.

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