All of us are creatures of a day; the remember and the remembered alike.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book Four
I think it's time for another Proust reread. The other day in my sophomore classes, which are focuses this semester on Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah (because, why not), and we were discussing the importance and nature of history, which led me to reflecting upon the nature of all memory. So, of course, it got me thinking about Proust. Reading Remembrance of Things Past is one of those intellectual and spiritual exercises which must be carried out every so often to get us in shape and to keep us focusing on the nature of all things.
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