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In this episode of Purl Diving, we experience a small blast from the past, courtesy of Marcel Proust, his tea, and most of all, his madeleine.
If you have your own Knitter's Madeleine that you'd care to share in a future episode of Purl Diving, please drop me a note, either in the comments or via email. If you have a microphone connected to your computer, you can also leave me an audio message of up to 3 minutes in length using the Odeo link in the sidebar.
Audio
Water/wave sample under intro created by pushtobreak from The Freesound Project
Music featured in this episode:
"Gigue L'angloise": Suite In G Minor: Le Troisième Livre De Pieces De Viole (1711) by Marin Marais, performed by Ralph Rousseau Meulenbroeks.
"Sonnerie de Ste. Geneviève du Mont de Paris"(1723) by Marin Marais, performed by Ralph Rousseau Meulenbroeks.
Additional Links:
- Du Côté de Chez Swann by Marcel Proust (original French text on Project Gutenberg site)
- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (English translation on Project Gutenberg site)
- In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu) article about Proust's novel (of which Swann is Volume 1) that contains the famous passage about his madeleine and the memories evoked by it.
- Involuntary Memory (a Proustian concept) article on Wikipedia
- Madeleines Recipe (with a good picture of freshly baked madeleines) by Stephanie Jaworski at Joyofbaking.com
Music for this episode courtesy of Magnatune
Hi! I know this is oh-so-late, since your podcast aired months ago, but I just listened to this episode and had to tell you how much I enjoyed it. I loved the concept, the reading, your story about your own knitting madeleine, and I adored the music. Thank you so much!
Hannah
Posted by: Hannah | October 09, 2007 at 08:47 PM