tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13936314.post115268031859868090..comments2023-07-12T07:22:02.075-07:00Comments on Pop Culture Junk Mail: BubbliciousGael Fashingbauer Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720729203329325754noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13936314.post-1152823471512174162006-07-13T13:44:00.000-07:002006-07-13T13:44:00.000-07:00There is actually a term for this, the "Proust eff...There is actually a term for this, the "Proust effect." Someone earlier mentioned it in reference to an Anne Lamott book, but it goes back to this -- <BR/>"Proust describes in the opening chapter of Swann's Way - the first volume of his seven-part novel, In Search of Lost Time - the taste of a madeleine soaked in tea that brings back a rush of memories; this is perhaps the most famous passage of the work. This kind of memory is referred to as 'Proustian Memory,' although Proust himself refers to it as 'involuntary memory.'"<BR/>(cut and pasted from Wikipedia)Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09369366939679386873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13936314.post-1152812929613236722006-07-13T10:48:00.000-07:002006-07-13T10:48:00.000-07:00"It is, at core, a heartland Greek tragedy,"Oh, pl..."It is, at core, a heartland Greek tragedy,"<BR/><BR/>Oh, please. It's a minor story about a newspaper columnist who had a one-night stand with the subject of a column and was fired/resigned for it. The only thing tragic about it was that the Tribune hadn't let Greene and his mawkish, self-righteous blathering go years before.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13936314.post-1152797684717474282006-07-13T06:34:00.000-07:002006-07-13T06:34:00.000-07:00Hey, I saw that book in Borders and spent an entir...Hey, I saw that book in Borders and spent an entire morning reading it. Then I went home and e-mailed him and he wrote back! OMG. Still love him. Can't help it. Still do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13936314.post-1152729836323507542006-07-12T11:43:00.000-07:002006-07-12T11:43:00.000-07:00My favourite term for this when it involves smell ...My favourite term for this when it involves smell is 'Proustian olfactory flashback,' as coined by Anne Lamott.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13936314.post-1152723855339627202006-07-12T10:04:00.000-07:002006-07-12T10:04:00.000-07:00In method acting, it's called sense memory, when a...In method acting, it's called sense memory, when a smell or a sound or something puts you back into the moment of a memory, and you can use your emotions in your acting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13936314.post-1152720721456539562006-07-12T09:12:00.000-07:002006-07-12T09:12:00.000-07:00The sense of smell is the only sense that isn't in...The sense of smell is the only sense that isn't interpreted by the brain first. Meaning, when you see something, your brain first processes then interprets what you are seeing. When you smell something, it goes directly to the memory center of your brain. This is why you can smell something and immediately be transported back to the time in your life when you first encountered that scent.Athena714https://www.blogger.com/profile/11075024936810011359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13936314.post-1152713939943716772006-07-12T07:18:00.000-07:002006-07-12T07:18:00.000-07:00"The night before, he had not slept at all because..."The night before, he had not slept at all because the world as he knew it had just exploded. And so he'd decided to stay awake to await confirmation of his newly scorched reality, which would be dropped outside the door of his high-rise apartment unit in the form of an understated announcement in the lower left corner on the front page of the Sunday Chicago Tribune, the newspaper for which he had written a tremendously popular column for the previous twenty-four years. His hometown-sweetheart wife and his sixteen-year-old son had somehow managed to find slumber, even after he had told them the worst thing he could ever tell them; they lay in their beds letting unconsciousness temporarily obscure truth." Oh, my, God! this is horrible writing on a par with Michael Patterson's maunderings!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13936314.post-1152708127844894732006-07-12T05:42:00.000-07:002006-07-12T05:42:00.000-07:00I hear you (smell you?) on the scent memory phenom...I hear you (smell you?) on the scent memory phenomenon. Crayons can make me 6 again. There's also some kind of cleaner/disinfectant that they occasionally use in my office building that smells EXACTLY like my elementary school, and every time I smell it, I am in kindergarten again. It's such a powerful feeling, it's almost like time travel.Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16297632410943976459noreply@blogger.com