proust's way

"For many of us, the kind of “love” that shakes and rattles these French characters has not been endured since junior high when one had a crush on a teacher, or “went steady” with another fickle adolescent to see who could break whose heart first. "

"Proustian love is love in a minor key, paradoxical, intellectual, doomed, damned, and destructive."

These are the first interesting or stimulating phrases I've come across in the past 3 (uninteruppted) hours of researching.

the first rattled me with fear, the second sums up all the affaires du coeurs in Diaryland.

- on 2003-04-03 at 4:23 p.m.

wilted - blooming