Tuesday, May 29, 2018

On Reading Within a Budding Grove (May 29, 2018)


Marcel wrestling with Gilberte… good gracious,
The honesty of Proust!  The will to shame
Dissemblers!  A mind like that, so spacious,
So forgiving of things we dare not name,
So tolerant of sin, so just, so fair,
As if for years he suffered every pain
So later he might understand and care
About the pain of others.  He was sane
While friends and family thought him raving mad.
He was watching, waiting, learning, weeping
For the ugly, the beautiful, the bad
And the good.   At night while she was sleeping,
He was writing.   It takes courage to hold fire,
To hide your truer self behind a liar. 



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