tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061009.post5759582645822013484..comments2023-08-19T14:12:52.220+02:00Comments on Reflection & Inquiries: A personal updateGeoffrey Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04041450398780043453noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061009.post-22105374220659642372009-04-18T05:47:00.000+02:002009-04-18T05:47:00.000+02:00I’ve long loved L'Éducation sentimentale I read it...I’ve long loved L'Éducation sentimentale I read it fairly young and was enchanted with those characters and their world. Even though I suppose Flaubert is much of the time satirizing them, with their drifting lives and feckless politics, they seemed to me immersed in a sustaining world of shining light. I was even younger, 18, when, while I was working in a lumber yard in Los Angeles over the summer, I read Théophile Gauthier’s La toison d'or. Soon I found myself stuck in a traffic jam with my girl friend of the time going to a performance of Carmen (in English) at the Hollywood Bowl. It happily occurred to me that without stretching it much you could say I was on the way to the opera with my mistress. I was thrilled. I felt I had become a person. That must have been 1953. A youth!Dirk van Nouhuyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920127581598506664noreply@blogger.com