why I read other people’s blogs

October 5, 2009 · 2 comments

in just me

In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self.  The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book [blog, in my case -erin], he would perhaps never have experienced in himself.  And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its veracity.

-Marcel Proust, as quoted by Alain de Botton in How Proust Can Change Your Life.

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Erin October 31, 2009 at 11:34 am

Bobby Rozzell, I’m glad you’re back!

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