Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Happy birthday, John #Coltrane.youtube.comLush Life (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster 1958)YouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic 010
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 16/09/2026🧵(1/4) Happy birthday, #JessyeNorman! Five Black women, each one so singular she needs only a single name. First up: Nina by Jessye, “My Baby Just Cares for Me”.youtube.comMy Baby Just Cares for MeYouTube video by Jessye Norman - Topic 110
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 04/09/2026🧵(10/x) Ongoing thread: paintings not in #Karpeles mentioned in the Oxford #Proust. See alt-text. Gustave Moreau, Dead Poet Borne by Centaur (?1890). “In one such watercolour, a poet, exhausted after a long journey in the mountains…" 110
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 03/09/2026🧵(8/x) Ongoing thread: paintings not in #Karpeles mentioned in the Oxford #Proust. See alt-text. Gustave Moreau, The Muses Leaving Their Father Apollo to Go and Enlighten the World (1868). "The Muses, for example, were represented as creatures belonging to a now fossilized species…" 160
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This is how I first got to know her. Rest in grace, Cassandra Wilson.youtube.comCassandra Wilson 'Tupelo Honey'YouTube video by tivola 041
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"At the heart of everything Dolly Parton accomplished, she was a songwriter." One of her earliest and best, and probably ahead of its time, a woman's calm and resolute show of strength to a cruel lover. Rest in brilliance, #DollyParton.youtube.comDolly Parton - “Don’t Let It Trouble Your Mind” (1969)YouTube video by countryclippings 130
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 25/08/2026She wrote songs about things we didn't know could be written about, and gifted songwriters since the agency to do the same. Rest in grace, #DollyParton.youtube.comDown from DoverYouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic 050
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 25/08/2026You just know she'll keep on working, but now with the fair promotion she deserves. #DollyPartonyoutube.comDolly Parton - 9 To 5 (Official Video)YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO 020
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Sure, Oprah has her book club. But Dolly did the same for kids and for free. Rest in generosity, #DollyParton.imaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas. 010
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Try to top this. J.S. Bach, The Goldberg Variations, Glenn Gould (1981). It was also my first Glenn Gould, so at first I was impressed that the new technology allowed me to hear his humming so clearly. And then later I realized that, no, he just hummed loudly, and a lot. I love this record. 141
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 18/08/2026🧵(6/x) Ongoing thread: paintings not in #Karpeles mentioned in the Oxford #Proust. See alt-text. "…Elstir did paint a beautiful portrait of me. You don’t know it? It’s not like me at all, but it’s intriguing. He’s a fascinating painter to sit for…" (The Guermantes Way, p. 455, tr. Peter Bush) ⬇️ 120
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 14/08/2026🧵(4/x) Ongoing: paintings not in #Karpeles mentioned in the Oxford #Proust. "…the scruffy, scraggy missionary, opposite that chubby prelate playing with his little dog as it does its tricks, is quite a little poem and shows subtlety, even depth." (The Guermantes Way, p. 436, tr. Peter Bush) ⬇️ 120
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 12/08/2026🧵(2/x) Ongoing: paintings not in #Karpeles mentioned in the Oxford #Proust; see alt-text. "Yet the older among them ought to have been able to remind themselves that in the course of their lives they’d seen, as the years gradually distanced them from it… 200
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 11/08/2026🧵(1/x) Paintings not in #Karpeles but mentioned in the Oxford #Proust, an ongoing series. See alt-text for details. "His features were flushed with cold, bringing to mind…the ruddy cheeks Brueghel gives to his boisterous, carousing, frostbitten peasants." (The Guermantes Way, tr. Peter Bush) 041
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 07/08/2026@bryanacharles.bsky.social is referring to the Oxford #Proust Sodom and Gomorrah, tr. Helen Constantine. Some Googling and OED'ing indicate that "zounds" is a remarkable rendering of "saperlipopette," since both interjections have religious origins, gradually transformed to avoid blasphemy. ⬇️⬇️ 241
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 07/08/2026A good time to point out that Peter Bush liked using "nasty" in Oxford's The Guermantes Way. The tally is Enright 2, Treharne 3, Bush 11. But it's a 500-page book, so it's never too much. 😂 #Proustnytimes.comAfter Trump Calls Canadians ‘Nasty,’ Mark Carney Says the Word Fits Trade TalksCanada’s prime minister laughed off Trump’s description of Canada but suggested that trade talks between the two countries are acrimonious. 121
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 07/08/2026🧵(1/12) Paintings in #Proust by Eric Karpeles is a valuable resource for anyone reading the Search. Unfortunately, it is indexed only to the 1987–89 La Pléiade, the 1992 Chatto & Windus, and the 1992–93 Modern Library editions. (The latter two are the CKSM-Kilmartin-Enright translation.) 2111
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I haven't listened to a Traviata in good, or even acceptable, sound quality in a very long time because this is the only recording of it I ever play. Nothing comes close. Callas, di Stefano, Bastianini; Giulini, La Scala 1955.youtube.comMaria Callas "Amami, Alfredo!" 1955YouTube video by Marx 7811 140
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Re-upping.lrb.co.ukEmily Wilson · An Uncomplicated ManAs they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my... 040
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Even _Saved_by_the_Bell, while hardly the first, did it. Occasionally, in the Search, the point of view changes so that the "I" is neither the young protagonist nor the mature narrator, but #Proust himself. Even _he_ broke the fourth wall. 382
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 17/07/2026A gentle reminder that, if after seeing the movie you want to read the book, the translation by @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social is the best there is. #Homer #Odyssey 3203
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 15/07/2026‘For heaven’s sake, don’t let those dim-witted doctors get you down! They’re idiots. You’re as solid as the Pont-Neuf. You’ll bury the lot of us!’ (The Guermantes Way, tr. Peter Bush) #Proust #Proustskyyoutube.comSeth Meyers impersonates Lindsey Graham and his 'Mee-Maw'YouTube video by LateNighter 021
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Happy, happy birthday, Marcel #Proust! (Quote below from In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom, tr. @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social.) 0158
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 07/07/2026A probing article from @bryanacharles.bsky.social. Long thread incoming. References are to the Oxford Proust. Sodom and Gomorrah just came out and Bryan writes about The Captive. (1/x) 1123
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 30/06/2026"They called Max Factor. He was living then. He went away, came back about two weeks later with this makeup they created for me. They named it Light Egyptian. They took this Light Egyptian. They put it all over Ava Gardner." Happy birthday, #LenaHorne.youtube.com'Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man' | Till The Clouds Roll By | Lena Horne (HD Print)YouTube video by Classics 251
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 30/06/2026“Nepotism never hurt nobody. If you got it, use it. Press on with it. Remind them of it.” Happy birthday, #LenaHorne.youtube.comLena Horne - Stormy Weather/If You BelieveYouTube video by BronzeVenus 020
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Happy birthday, marriage equality. 010
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Happy birthday to Joyce Carol Oates, the almost-Susan Lucci of the fiction Pulitzer. 030
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 14/06/2026A cue from the intro (by @michaellucey.bsky.social) to Oxford's new Sodom and Gomorrah got me curious. #Proust #Proustsky Proust: Bouleversement de toute ma personne. CKSM+TK+DJE: Upheaval of my entire being. Sturrock: A convulsion of my entire being. Constantine: An overwhelming of my entire self. 140
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I flew to San Diego in 1997 just to see his Turandot. The only ticket I could get was in the very, very last row of the balcony. No matter. The stage design, so striking and bold, repudiated distance. RIP David Hockney. www.hockney.com/works/stage_... 141
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 11/06/2026A valuable resource for all of Douglas Stuart's books.dsl.ac.ukDictionaries of the Scots Language 110
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Sodom and Gomorrah, volume 4 of the Oxford Proust, tr. Helen Constantine, is out in paperback. 030
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 10/06/2026A perfect scene. Happy birthday, Judy Garland.youtube.comThe Man That Got Away - A Star Is Born (1954)YouTube video by trumpetboy1955 010
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Happy birthday, Prince. If I was your girlfriend Would you let me dress you? I mean, help you pick out your clothes Before we go out? Not that you're helpless But sometimes, sometimes Those are the things That bein' in love's about #Albertine #Proust #Proustskyyoutube.comPrince - If I Was Your Girlfriend (Welcome 2 America Tour, Live in New York, 2011)YouTube video by e_perez 040
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Three days late! Happy birthday, Neil Shicoff. This is "Rachel, quand du Seigneur" from La Juive, music by Fromental Halévy, libretto by Eugène Scribe. A performance for the ages. #Proust #Proustskyyoutube.comHalévy La Juive - aria di Eleazar "Rachel..." Neil ShicoffYouTube video by Giampaolo Lomi 010
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Happy birthday, Leslie Uggams. Thank you (and to Jerry Herman and George Hearn) for giving my young gayling self an anthem, a suit of armour, heavy but shatterproof, to make it through another day.youtube.comLeslie Uggams - I Am What I Am (2020)YouTube video by LizaFan 050
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Happy birthday Bob Dylan #Proust #Proustsky 030
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 23/05/2026I'm happy to wait for the paperback and pdf ebook (I like having both 🤷♂️) but if you can't, the fourth volume of the Oxford Proust is now available as an ebook in epub and Kindle formats. Sodom and Gomorrah, tr. Helen Constantine, introduction by @michaellucey.bsky.social. 021
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 21/05/2026From Mathias Énard and @terribleman.com, a joyful read on death and karmic rebirth. A lustful priest returns as a wild boar, an abusive husband hangs himself into a past warlord. A self-absorbed anthropologist switches careers as an eco-farmer, a once-beautiful region renewed in hands like his. 084
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I'd rather have a candle that smells like sunshine, blue skies and love and laughter, apparently, than one that smells like Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina, apparently.theguardian.comWhy is Gwyneth Paltrow selling a candle that smells like her vagina?Gwyneth has made a candle called This Smells Like My Vagina for her website, Goop. And, of course, it has sold out 110
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 20/05/2026…Françoise cried out: "Come on, button up your coat and let’s get going!" and I noted to myself for the first time, with irritation, how common her speech was and that she had, alas, no blue feather in her hat. Happy birthday, #Cher! Spare a blue feather for Françoise. #Proust #Proustsky 140
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Happy birthday, Céleste Albaret. (Photo by Cecil Beaton) #Proust #Proustsky 051
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 16/05/2026A few minutes late! Happy birthday, Salvatore #Fisichella. One of the greatest tenors of our time, far better than the overrated one among The Three Tenors.youtube.comSalvatore Fisichella - Che gelida maninaYouTube video by vladutze84 100
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Happy birthday, #ArmisteadMaupin. On writing The Last Days of Anna Madrigal: "I wanted Proustian sensory triggers to send Anna back to her past. One was the smell of an old book. Another was rose water, which would be a cheap perfume in a brothel…" #Proust #Proustsky 🧵1/2youtube.comArmistead Maupin Reads From "The Days of Anna Madrigal"YouTube video by Barbara Falconer Newhall 120
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 30/04/2026The twin prime conjecture comments on the trajectory of history. Two narratives of war will stretch into infinity, always separated by the same narrow gap. A pronouncement as yet unproven, but taken on clear-eyed faith. A great read from Mathias Énard and @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social. #booksky 2102
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Balzac has thoughts on photography that are the stuff of lowercase human comedy. 120
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 28/04/2026It’s a Canadian-poets-and-musicians kind of afternoon. (See my other posts today.) Jan Zwicky, James Ehnes (by way of Mozart), James Campbell (by way of Brahms)— so here’s Leonard Cohen because nothing could be more obvious. 020
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 27/04/2026From Canadians Jan Zwicky and James Campbell. Thanks to @poemakontsa.bsky.social for a wonderful musical afternoon.youtube.comBrahms' Clarinet Quintet in B minor Opus 115 - New Zealand String Quartet with James CampbellYouTube video by nzstringquartet 031
Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Now complete, save one. All the work of Adolfo #Bioy Casares translated to English. The two paperbacks are new, the rest are used dust-jacketed hardcovers: some first printings, some like new, some ex-library, some heavily foxed. One water-damaged. I love them all. #Borges #translation #booksky 🧵1/2 120
