In Search of Lost Time (lol)
Adding "lol" to the end of each sentence of a classic work of literature – is it a joke, a statement, a weird way to pass the time?
This literary project spans over 2,000 pages, each sentence of Proust's In Search of Lost Time ending in "lol."
For a long time I used to go to bed early lol. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say “I’m going to sleep lol.” And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had been thinking all the time, while I was asleep, of what I had just been reading, but my thoughts had run into a channel of their own, until I myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church, a quartet, the rivalry between Francois I and Charles V lol.
Discover the writer behind the project and his motivations for undertaking such a task:
Meet the writer who added “lol” to the end of every sentence of In Search of Lost Time.
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