{"id":2475,"date":"2016-02-01T14:34:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T14:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2025-06-03T14:40:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:40:54","slug":"remembrance-of-things-past-volume-one-swanns-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/remembrance-of-things-past-volume-one-swanns-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance of Things Past Volume One: Swann&#8217;s Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb\" title=\"Swann's Way\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/swannsway.jpg\" alt=\"Swann's Way\" height=\"160px\" \/><br \/>\nI started to read this book several years ago &#8211; and ever since Monty Python&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.montypython.net\/scripts\/proust.php\">Summarising Proust<\/a>&#8221; sketch I guess the novels have been on my &#8220;ought to read&#8221; list.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The reason for starting now is &#8211; surprisingly &#8211; Radio 3. The new playlist is &#8220;Music that Transports&#8221; and was described as a sort of &#8216;musical madeleine&#8217; &#8211; which confused me somewhat until I searched and discovered that the madeleine was a trigger for memories in Proust&#8217;s writing. If you have read any of my blog entries (for example <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-new-music-memory\/\">A New Musical Memory<\/a>) then you will have realised that this is, in fact, a rather topical subject &#8211; I therefore feel the need to finally persevere with this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started to read this book several years ago &#8211; and ever since Monty Python&#8217;s &#8220;Summarising Proust&#8221; sketch I guess the novels have been on my &#8220;ought to read&#8221; list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[79,103,119],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","tag-cognition","tag-philosophical","tag-worldview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}