Still climbing Mt. Proust.

I think Proust meant to say that the ratios of the intervals remain unchanged, but we’ll let that slide. I thought thinking about measurement in terms of invariances didn’t come until later, and I never expected to find it in Proust.

This is from Proust (The Fugitive, p. 773), but didn’t Kant say something similar? “…souls move in time as bodies move in space. As there is a geometry in space, so there is a psychology in time, in which the calculations of a plane psychology would no longer be accurate…”

I’m sorry I missed this. I bought the audiobook a couple days ago, and I am enjoying it greatly.

There’s no such thing as a ‘golden age,’ says Renaissance scholar | University of Chicago News Interview with ⁦Ada Palmer⁩ news.uchicago.edu/story/theres-n…

Listening to Ada Palmer ‘s book Inventing the Renaissance, I feel I really should be seated in front of a bulletin board like you see in murder mysteries, with pictures of all the suspects and color-coded string crisscrossing all over it. Awesome book!

Pirate cardinal, you say? Turned pirate after he was deposed as Doge of Genoa, you say? Elevated to cardinal after fighting the Ottomans at Otranto? Tell me more about this guy. My wife says he needs his own series. Ada Palmer #InventingTheRenaissance

I recently finished Ada Palmer ‘s new book Inventing the Renaissance. Wonderful book — I highly recommend it. Here is an interview in which she explains the themes of the book: Ada Palmer - Myths of "the Renaissance" youtu.be/Lq1ksVVeRWI?si… via YouTube

Did somebody lose a cat in Hyde Park, Chicago? This little guy wandered into my backyard. Sweetest, friendliest stray cat I’ve ever met. Even asks for belly rubs. He belongs to someone and I’d like to see him returned.

Inventing the Renaissance: A Book Discussion with Ada Palmer youtu.be/E_HZ8SJmmXI?si… via YouTube

Is it merely a coincidence that on the eve of my 71st birthday I have read up to the section in Proust where he attends a party of people who have aged to the point that he can scarcely recognize them, and he realizes that he himself can scarcely be recognized by them?

I’m nearly done with Proust. What should I read next? (And please don’t tell me to reread Proust.)

Well, I’ve done it! I finished Proust! Only took me two years. (Feels like more.) Now what?

Paul Krugman interviews Ada Palmer about her fantastic new book, Inventing the Renaissance: Ada Palmer youtu.be/KMZDkvKNN-c?si… via YouTube

Another lost cat found in Hyde Park, Chicago. Anybody know this cat? All grey, longish hair, very silky smooth fur. Young, I’d say less than a year old. Extremely friendly. She (he?) belongs to someone.

It’s hard to take notes on your reading when there’s a cat in your lap. In fact, it’s hard to read.