Entry to the All-England Summarize Proust Competition
So kam nichts in so hohem Maße wie ein schönes Thema bei Vinteuil dem so unverkennbar eigenen Vergnügen gleich, das ich ein paarmal in meinem Leben verspürt hatte, zum Beispiel vor den Kirchtürmen von Martinville, oder jenen Bäumen an einer Landstraße bei Balbec, oder noch einfacher zu Anfang dieses Werkes beim Trinken einer Tasse Tee.
-- Die Gefangene, Bd. 8, S. 3255f
In einem bekannten Sketch von Monty Python wird eine Fernsehshow nachgestellt, in der drei Kandidaten vergeblich versuchen die vorgegebene Aufgabe zu lösen: eine Zusammenfassung der Recherche in 15 Sekunden. Das Ergebnis ist ernüchternd:
show master: Well Ladies and Gentlemen, I don't think any of our contestants this evening have succeeded in encapsulating the intricacies of Proust's masterwork, so I'm going to award the first prize this evening to the girl with the biggest tits.
(Applause and music. A lady with enormous knockers comes on to the side of the stage.)
Ich hätte es, glaube ich, mit der obigen Passage versucht. Sprechen Sie es einmal in 15 Sekunden --
Thus nothing resembled more closely than some such phrase of Vinteuil the peculiar pleasure which I had felt at certain moments in my life, when gazing, for instance, at the steeples of Martinville, or at certain trees along a road near Balbec, or, more simply, in the first part of this book, when I tasted a certain cup of tea.
-- The Captive
In an infamous Monty Python sketch a tv show is re-enacted, in which three candidates try to summarize the Recherche in 15 seconds - to no avail:
show master: Well Ladies and Gentlemen, I don't think any of our contestants this evening have succeeded in encapsulating the intricacies of Proust's masterwork, so I'm going to award the first prize this evening to the girl with the biggest tits.
(Applause and music. A lady with enormous knockers comes on to the side of the stage.)
I think I would have tried with the passage above. Just try and read it in 15 seconds --
-- Die Gefangene, Bd. 8, S. 3255f
In einem bekannten Sketch von Monty Python wird eine Fernsehshow nachgestellt, in der drei Kandidaten vergeblich versuchen die vorgegebene Aufgabe zu lösen: eine Zusammenfassung der Recherche in 15 Sekunden. Das Ergebnis ist ernüchternd:
show master: Well Ladies and Gentlemen, I don't think any of our contestants this evening have succeeded in encapsulating the intricacies of Proust's masterwork, so I'm going to award the first prize this evening to the girl with the biggest tits.
(Applause and music. A lady with enormous knockers comes on to the side of the stage.)
Ich hätte es, glaube ich, mit der obigen Passage versucht. Sprechen Sie es einmal in 15 Sekunden --
Thus nothing resembled more closely than some such phrase of Vinteuil the peculiar pleasure which I had felt at certain moments in my life, when gazing, for instance, at the steeples of Martinville, or at certain trees along a road near Balbec, or, more simply, in the first part of this book, when I tasted a certain cup of tea.
-- The Captive
In an infamous Monty Python sketch a tv show is re-enacted, in which three candidates try to summarize the Recherche in 15 seconds - to no avail:
show master: Well Ladies and Gentlemen, I don't think any of our contestants this evening have succeeded in encapsulating the intricacies of Proust's masterwork, so I'm going to award the first prize this evening to the girl with the biggest tits.
(Applause and music. A lady with enormous knockers comes on to the side of the stage.)
I think I would have tried with the passage above. Just try and read it in 15 seconds --
danielgruen - 31. Oct, 21:49
