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To: Rambi who wrote (4454)	6/29/2003 11:59:11 PM
From: coug	Respond to of 51770

Hi Rambi, I understand your point, and I was there too with it as I mentioned to X. But everyone should know, unless they have been living in a cave, <g>, anybody that would be going to the "Met" anyway, knew where their "grandfather" came from.. If they didn't know already, I doubt those that would care enough before, would go now, to the Met I mean, to learn the history of civilization... I might be wrong, it just seemed like "pouring salt on a wound". I don't know. Maybe it was scheduled five years ago. (They could change it, I'm sure because there must enough old stuff boxed in the basement to give the folks a show). Because it gives the appearance (maybe more so now) that us Americans, don't care, what we show, what we do, no matter where we are.. in time and space.. Because we are Americans, We can do whatever we want, whenever. Personally, I just don't think that is TRUE AMERICAN, maybe I am missing something, but I always try to see the other side.. m

To: Rambi who wrote (4454)	6/30/2003 12:35:43 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 51770

Time for a book rave. I got the best book at the library. I can't resist those books for a quarter- I bought about 10 last time I went, and they're all good, but one is fantastic!!! This is it: How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel by Alain De Botton amazon.com Editorial Reviews Ingram "A self-help manual for the intelligent person" ("The New York Times Book Review"), this stylish, erudite, and frequently hilarious book dips deeply into Marcel Proust's life and work to uncover a font of wonderful advice on such subjects as cultivating friendships, suffering successfully, and recognizing love. Amazon.com This is a genius-level piece of writing that manages to blend literary biography with self-help and tongue-in-cheek with the profound. The quirky, early 1900s French author Marcel Proust acts as the vessel for surprisingly impressive nuggets of wisdom on down-to-earth topics such as why you should never sleep with someone on the first date, how to protect yourself against lower back pain, and how to cope with obnoxious neighbors. Here's proof that our ancestors had just as much insight as the gurus du jour and perhaps a lot more wit. De Botton simultaneously pokes fun at the self-help movement and makes a significant contribution to its archives. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title From Library Journal Here's an antidote for readers paralyzed by the anxiety of influence. Novelist and literary biographer de Botton (Kiss & Tell, Picador, 1996) sets out to exorcise the influence of Marcel Proust, using the words of the great French author of In Search of Lost Time most engagingly for and against him. In the process, de Botton fashions a hilarious work of authorial self-help. Like Julian Barnes in his Flaubert's Parrot, de Botton knows his author intimately, from what newspaper snippets he would have read each morning to what he and James Joyce said to each other the one time they met ("Non."). In pithy sections, spliced with kitschy photos and plenty of white space, he takes on Proust's personal and writerly idiosyncrasies: the length of his sentences; his loving devotion to minutiae; his elevation of the quotidian; his hypochondria. De Botton might not make us better people (he quotes the perennially miserable Proust on love in a Q-and-A format: "how to be happy in love"), but he will make us more careful readers. For all literature collections.?Amy Boaz, "Library Journal" Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of