Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Can happen with taste too: made famous in Proust's À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu.
I have tried to read that so many times.
Last attempt was pretty recent and I got a couple hundred pages into the first volume, which is as far as I have made it yet. It's an amazing read, but something I really have to devote serious attention to in order to get much out of it. And my attention is often in short supply.
enydo
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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Yep, had that happen sometimes. I can remember smoking at a friend's apartment a while ago. I looked at the corner of the room for some reason, and something about the corner reminded me of going with my family to the house of one of my dad's friends when I was younger. I don't know what exactly it was, maybe the way the furniture was laid out or something?
:wtf:
Anyway, the sense of reminiscence was incredibly strong and it released a flood of emotion.
Exactly. It always seems to happen at the weirdest moments and it's always overwhelming for a bit.
SYSTEM-J
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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
I have tried to read that so many times.
Last attempt was pretty recent and I got a couple hundred pages into the first volume, which is as far as I have made it yet. It's an amazing read, but something I really have to devote serious attention to in order to get much out of it. And my attention is often in short supply.
That's how I am with Ulysses. I have to lock myself in a room with some quiet drone ambient or something to actually take in what's on the page. When I do it's incredible, but it's just such hard work.
MrJiveBoJingles
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
That's how I am with Ulysses. I have to lock myself in a room with some quiet drone ambient or something to actually take in what's on the page. When I do it's incredible, but it's just such hard work.
Haha, yes.
I wish that I had a room set aside just for reading, with a nice chair, desk, and all my books, where I could go when I wanted to really dive into something like those works.
couch-potato
I'm not going to bother attempting Joyce until I finish Dostoevsky (Crime & Punishment, Brothers Karamazov) & Infinite Jest. Even then I may have to wait on it because I feel it's something I wouldn't wholly grasp just yet. Happy to read that its a worthy experience :)
EDIT: Jack, are you using a guide?
SYSTEM-J
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Originally posted by couch-potato
EDIT: Jack, are you using a guide?
I was last time I read it, because I had to write an essay on it and I needed to understand everything that was going on. That made the reading process twice as long because I had two bookmarks: one for the text and one for the annotation. There are sections of it where every single line is an allusion to something you won't know anything about because you weren't alive in Dublin in 1904. It's easier to read if you aren't trying to follow every single allusion and pun, and easier still once you've got through it a first time.
D-res
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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
(2) Having a radioactive fluid pumped into my body for a medical test. The fluid was really warm and I could feel it building up in my veins as the pump ran.
:wtf:
That sounds similar to when I did a double donation of plasma, after your blood goes through a machine and extracts the red blood cells, it mixes with water or something and is replaced into your arm, only it's noticeably cold. You can feel it spreading from the point of injection inside your elbow to your fingertips and up your shoulder, toward the heart. :wtf:
Chris Crossland
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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
I get this sometimes, but not associated with people as much as times of my life or places I lived. And when the memory comes back, it's really strong and charged with a lot of emotion.
I'm the same way!
A couple months ago when I was walking through the apartment hallways it happened to me and stopped me dead in my tracks. I could have stood there all day. I couldn't place where the smell took me back to but I knew it was from childhood when I was extremely happy.:tongue2
I love that feeling:tongue2 :tongue2 :tongue2 :tongue2
Also, when I was on a cruise ship in 10th grade they had these Vegas style shows, and the women were drop-dead gorgeous. Their perfume stunk up the whole place, but it was a good stink. I got to meet them and they towered over me like giant angels ready to give me an infinite orgasm!!!:crazy: I fell in love instantly:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: Since then there have only been two times when i've smelled that perfume or combo of scents. It was like I had fallen in love all over again. s like a drug hahaha
kadomony
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Originally posted by yukii
Sometimes while just sitting, I feel like my heart beat goes off chart or does a skip, very weird.
