{"id":8,"date":"2022-01-18T14:46:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T21:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/?p=8"},"modified":"2022-01-18T14:47:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T21:47:57","slug":"combray-1-the-power-of-a-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/2022\/01\/18\/combray-1-the-power-of-a-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Combray 1: The Power of a Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a lack of better introduction, this week’s reading reminded me of one solitary thing; the concept of deja-vu. I found that with the beginning of the chapter, the vivid imagery persisted and felt so increasingly reminiscent that I could no longer decipher whether the character was asleep or awake. I found myself making sense of the specific descriptions by applying them to my own childhood room. I began with the four walls, the window, the placing of the bed. I even went as far as imagining the mother as my own, entering my room to give me a goodnight kiss. The trail to the downstairs living room where my disgruntled father sits waiting for my mother to return to him, frustrated by the pause in his ranting. The great-aunt as my own, or rather a collection of the judgemental aunts waiting for me back home. The rapid dynamics and how one’s own narrative and the power they have can deconstruct and reconstruct an entire scene and how the on-looker interprets it. Was the great aunt truly judgemental and bitter or was she just insecure and begging to insert herself into the story, resulting from a lack of attention in her earlier years? Would I have imagined a different scene or mood had I not set my internal narration of this book to a British accent?<\/strong> So many little tweaks and adjustments could make for an utterly different reflection of the chapter let alone the book. I began reading solely thinking about what I would take away from it rather than what I could contribute. As I read fellow classmates’ blog posts, I take away from your own contributions as an enhancement of mine. How would you answer the questions I have in bold? Would you agree or disagree that our power over our own spaces exists in our mental mapping of fictional spaces? Are we constantly dreaming or are we waiting, gathering material to eventually dream?\u00a0<\/strong>More than anything, I have almost answered my question from the previous blog post, what does one earn citizenship into the Romance World? Speaking in completely theoretical terms, we earn our place in the Romance World and anywhere by proving ourselves worthy of being there. Asserting our place by deeming our thoughts, reflections, and opinions as worthy of taking place in that space is equivalent to gaining a role in any society. Proust’s text went from confusing, to repetitive, to familiar simply because I used mental mapping and my own experiences to make the complex and peculiar, mundane and familiar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a lack of better introduction, this week’s reading reminded me of one solitary thing; the concept of deja-vu. I found that with the beginning of the chapter, the vivid imagery persisted and felt so increasingly reminiscent that I could no longer decipher whether the character was asleep or awake. I found myself making sense […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,7,4,11,5,12,13,8,6,2,9,14],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-affect","tag-combray-1","tag-deja-vu","tag-effect","tag-familiar","tag-framing","tag-mapping","tag-power","tag-proust","tag-rmst-202-201","tag-story","tag-the-real"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}