There's this 2 hour and 20 minute video slamming the crypto space. It has millions upon millions of views. It's called "Line Goes Up - The Problem with NFTs." But make no mistake, it's a two-hour

In today's scene, the main character is in a good mood from reading and nice weather and wants to socialize. But when he passes someone and tries to get them into a conversation, the person has no interest.

As I get older, I look for deeper and more abstract literature to read. I assume this is cyclical and one day I'll return to the classic stories, but right now I want bizarre things that make me think

Today, we have another two part quote. These sentences are so long and full of detail that parts must be skipped and even broken apart to fully digest and respond to it properly. In this scene, M. Vinteuil's

As usual, Proust takes a concept that is unimaginable and describes it with delicacy and awe. On page 156 of Swann's Way: "The process which had begun in her--and in her a little earlier only than

I first read Anna Karenina when I was 22. It was some sort of masculine show of what I could do. I loved reading the largest, most difficult books I could find. I'm very glad to have read those books in

I've been reading Swann's Way in the sauna for quite some time now, and this is the first passage that has truly knocked me back with its power. The flowery prose finally made sense to me. This description

The Problem The U.S. is in the middle of a voting crisis. Much of the public has lost faith in the way the current system is run, and this has somehow happened regardless of political party. For example,

On page 125: "...the ground moved forward under my feet in that garden where for so long my actions had ceased to require any control, or even attention, from my will. Habit had come to take me in

Here are the poems I've published on Hive; all in one place, a sort of e-book. More to come.

Today I won't use a quote. Instead, we'll reflect on something Proust does extremely well in Swann's Way. He captures really subtle aspects of characters that makes me think: wow, I know that person! The

The narrator contemplates how we judge new writers with different standards. On pages 106-107: "But none of them would go so far as to say 'He's a great writer, he has great talent.' They did not

It's the next article in this series, and our main character is still doing the same thing: reading. He's been reflecting on the nature of reading and books and what the experience is like. On page 92:

In this scene the narrator is reading in a secluded area. He wants to stay away from everything, free from his duties. On page 90: "And then my thoughts, too formed a similar sort of recess, in the

In today's scene, we have the narrator meeting a woman he doesn't know, but he does know that a millionaire has given her a house and jewels and all sorts of fancy things. On page 83: "And yet, when

In today's selection, we have the characters eating a meticulously prepared meal. The narrator discusses this in comparison to receiving a gift from an artist (pg 77): "To have left even the tiniest

I've begun to look forward to these sauna sessions and the pouring out of my thoughts afterward into these little blogs. I've even started taking in a pencil to scribble ideas in the margins and underline

Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of those daunting literary masterpieces that everyone wants to have read but never wants to sit down and do the reading. It clocks in at around 4,200 pages (depending