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Issue No 344 Wednesday March 22nd 2000
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AGENDA
Minutes and Matters Arising
1. News: Estates, Council, Chemistry Students, Great Hall, Promotions,
Prof Rodden, Transport questionnaire.
2. Tips for would-be Proustians (VII): The book of the film
3. Tips for would-be Proustians (VIII): Cast list.
4. Readers' Letters: Rory Daly, Jon Moulton, Research overheads
5. Small Ads: Drum kit, House for sale, Garage wanted, House to let,
Accommodation wanted, Flat for sale.
MINUTES AND MATTERS ARISING
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Some weird punctuation and typos in the Proust. Sorry - in a hurry
to get to the end before the film arrives. The film is on at the Duke's
Playhouse this Sunday at 7.00 and on Monday at 5.30.
The TV adaptation of Alain de Botton's 'How Proust can change your
life' was on BBC2 on Sunday night.
Lengthy and revealing interview with Chris Woodhead in the Sunday Times.
1. NEWS
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MAJOR ESTATES PROPOSALS GO OUT FOR CONSULTATION: astonished college,
SU and admin officials were invited to a meeting on Monday morning and
given a lengthy sales pitch and a glossy detailed set of plans for
major building developments on campus over the next six or seven years.
These involve, inter alia, the building of a new college next to
County, major extensions in Cartmel, Fylde and Graduate College,
demolition of the old loan-financed blocks in Cartmel etc., conversion
of County and parts of Lonsdale and Bowland into en-suite rooms by the
conversion of the middle room of 3 into 2 bathrooms, building of a huge
new sports hall and Student Union premises.
The consortium that devised the plans comprised Bradford & Bingley BS
as surveyors, the architects who built the Chaplaincy Centre and Mowlem
the building group. They seemed to think they had satisfied their brief
which, apparently included 80 percent residence rooms ensuite. The
question is who decided that figure for example, and whether the
Estates committee or Council had exactly this in mind.
Exciting, but described as 'bonkers' by some of those present, the
proposals would turn the place into a building site for the foreseeable
future and probably require an entirely new access road for works
traffic. Quite apart from the financing of it... The promoters seemed
to think this would not be a problem and work could start quite soon.
Private money would have to be involved and we'd like to know what the
deal is.
CHEMISTRY NEXT YEAR: Still no news on how the Part II Chemistry
students are to be taught next year. There will be 20 odd of them in
each year of Part II. We were assured that the interests of these
students would be kept uppermost in negotiations, but no money seems to
have been levered out of HEFCE to pay for e.g. staff travel costs in
the transitional period. Nor does anything seem to have been written
into the new contracts at Sheffield, nor have any replacement staff
been sought for courses starting in September. There is clearly an
urgent problem which Pro-VC Whitaker and Prof Macdonald are tackling.
COUNCIL: A brief, low-key and focussed meeting that was over by 4.00.
Alas, after a brief improvement the chair has reverted to old habits on
Friday, intervening with personal opinions too often, and being
wince-makingly patronising, or simply rude, about an explanatory
intervention from the SU President. Things got off to a bad start when
Hilton Dawson MP's mobile phone rang 3 times at the start of the
meeting. (He also had to leave at 3.30 just as the meeting was about to
discuss this year's budget gap, an inauspicous start to his maiden
appearance.)
They heard a report that the Nurse-led Unit was not to proceed as
planned, but unfortunately no one reminded the meeting that if the
Chair, Chair of finance and Director of Resources had had their way the
thing would have gone ahead without discussion. Not to be forgotten.
Discussion of statutes revision: it was reaffirmed that the pro-vcs
will be in attendance at the new council rather than members (as some
of them think should be the case). The Secretary is taking further
independent legal advice on the membership question. The matter of
college representation on Senate was raised.
In answer to a question about the appointing committee for the new
internal auditors, Chair Bill Davies said that although internal officers
should be represented, lay members should be in a majority.
PROMOTIONS: Congratulations to the following on their promotion to
Senior Lecturer. Sarah Barber (History), David Bradley (Physics &
Chemistry), TJ Crawford (Psychology), Robert Crawshaw (European Languages
& Culture), Alison Findlay (English), NJ Fullwood (Biological
Sciences), Sally Johnson (Linguistics & MEL), Andrew Scott (Computing),
Mark Sebba (Linguistics & MEL), Tony Waine (European Languages &
Culture), Linda Woodhead (Religious Studies).
Also to those who won promotion to Lecturer B Dr. KE Crameri
(European Languages & Culture), Dr. MB Sheller (Sociology), Mrs SI Skogly
(Law), Dr. LJ Twyman (Physics).
Also to Ed Hartley (Computing) and Dr. DG Luchinsky (Physics) on
Research & Analogous grades. Plus a number of people on 'other related'
scales in the management school
Within Admin, Library and Computing grades congratulations to Steve
Elliott (Computing), Heather Willes (Student Registry), Alasdair McKee
(Information Systems Services) and Dr Hilary Simmons (College &
Residence Office).
SAFETY IN THE GREAT HALL: Drama during the Bach B Minor Mass the other
Saturday. A posse from the town hall licensing department and the
fire-brigade arrived during the performance to carry out an unannounced
inspection, as they are required to do from time to time under the
terms of our music, singing and dancing licence. They were not
impressed at failing to find a responsible person, and noted numerous
apparent breaches of our licence in relation to doors (chained or
padlocked) doors or (blocked). At one time they were threatening to
stop the concert and vacate the building on the spot. We'll prolly hear
more of this.
ASTONISHED FRIENDS OF TOM RODDEN (Computing) were taken aback to see
him looking exceptionally dapper on Monday, with a new suit, a tie and
a smart haircut. The explanation is diplomacy: he was being visited by
two of the most senior EPSRC officers to finalize the precise amount of
the multi-million pound research grant his consortium is being awarded,
with massive publicity, next week. The figure agreed is thought not be
not unadjacent to 10 million pounds over 6 years, and is to be shared
between several industrial and university partners. Prof Somerviqlle
is also a partner in another to-be-announced successful project.
BAY CITY EXPRESS ROUTE SURVEY: Nearly 300 local people responded to
the Bay City Express Route questionnaire, with 98% of them in favour.
The results will be discussed by City Councillors at this afternoon's
Transport and Coastal Protection committee meeting.
Cost and speed appear to be the priorities, with the majority of
people wanting to pay no more than a pound for a single between
Lancaster and Morecambe and to make the journey in fifteen to twenty
minutes.
Jon Sear of the Council for the Protection of Rural England said
"Designing a system that is fast yet cheap might sound difficult.
However as journey times comes down, so do the operator's overheads, so
speed and affordability can come together. The key will be ensuring
there is nothing that holds the vehicles up."
The next stage is to persuade Lancashire County Council to adopt the
principle of the Bay City Express Route. County Councillors are
currently writing a five-year Local Transport Plan that will be
submitted to Government this summer.
2. TIPS FOR WOULD BE PROUSTIANS (VII)
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Volume 8: Time Regained, the book of the film. N.B. The film is a
highly intelligent, knowledgeable and sincere cinematographic
reconstruction rather than a literal adaptation. It opens artificially
with shots of Proust's manuscripts and of the ageing narrator tossing,
turning and coughing asthmatically in his famous cork-lined room from
which he eventually emerged only at nights. He is attended and
protected from visitors by his devoted servant, Celeste, and looks
through frozen black and white photos of all of those friends that
you've been hearing about. Then he thinks back, trying to bring the
photos to life... which more or less brings us to the book.
The narrator, you remember, has returned to Combray and is having a
long stay with Gilberte and Saint-Loup as a guest at Tansonville near
Meseglise, Swann's Combray estate. Many years later for he's been in
hospital. Madness, depression or asthma? Who knows? Swann is of course
by now long dead.
The places - the church at Combray and its steeple, the forest of
Meseglise - have remained the same, but not alas the people. Gilberte
and Saint-Loup have changed a lot... or is it just that the narrator,
no longer in love with anyone, knows them so much better and is so
disillusioned about people and life?
Saint-Loup is away most of the time of course, but comes to see them.
He has coarsened and is no longer so caring or sensitive to the needs
of his friends. With Gilberte, however, he puts on a show of exaggerated
affection that merely confirms his guilt, even to her. He lies
constantly, says the narrator. And when his lies are found out and
Gilberte smiles sadly, he just redoubles his lies in apologizing for
them.
The narrator is perplexed that the ghastly Morel is always welcomed by
either of them wherever he shows up. He of course has seduced
Saint-Loup, who has inherited his uncle Charlus' vice. However
Saint-Loup flaunts himself with other women to conceal this
homosexuality. Gilberte is going through the same disillusionment in
love as everyone else, and she too has been seduced by the ghastly
Morel. They both find that being in love does indeed always seem to
amount to 'being under an evil spell', as Proust puts it.
The narrator pursues his pointless efforts to discover whether
Albertine was really lesbian by asking Gilberte outright about
something she once said. She denies it flatly and says Albertine wasn't
at all like that. (Albertine of course had openly told the narrator
that Gilberte was lesbian, and nearly admitted to having had relations
with her herself.)
In bed one night he reads a brilliant and hilarious pastiche of Edmond
de Goncourt's evening at the Verdurin's. The snobbish old bore thinks
it the epitome of wit and good taste, whereas the narrator (and the
reader) has been wincing for volumes at the blind, vain, snobbish
hypocrisy of the old society hostess. In the film we _see_ this parody,
with ageing nouveau romancier and cineaste Robbe-Grillet playing
Goncourt. Mme V patronisingly dismisses the memory of Elstir, saying
that he couldn't even tell one flower from another before she taught
him.
Reading Goncourt's silly account of people he doesn't understand makes
the narrator reflect on his own lack of literary gifts and get
depressed about it. He can't see people as they are any longer, he
says. He's now so cynical that he's like a surgeon who can't admire the
lovely sheen of a woman's stomach but thinks enjoyably instead about
the cancer eating up her insides. Next day he goes off for another long
stay in hospital to try to cure his asthma.
He returns to Paris briefly in August 1914 for a medical check-up and
sees Charlus, Bloch and Saint-Loup. Another gap while he again
re-enters a sanatorium, then the return to Paris during August 1916.
Bombardments and black-outs. This is a bitterly ironic section that
passes very pessimistic judgment on the human race. In the midst of the
bloodiest war in human history the search for pleasure and fashionable
luxury continues, especially amongst women. But society is changing,
the enmities of the Dreyfus affair have been forgotten. He reflects on
how insignificant are the changes in history. The Revolution and
Napoleon's empire are nothing compared to, say, the writings of
Chateaubriand.
It's also increasingly bewildering to see how unpredictable people
are. Saint-Loup showed his ancestral ideals, led from the front... and
was killed in the opening days of the war. Morel was a deserter and
sent to the front instead of being shot: he acquits himself honorably
and returns a hero. Bloch tried to escape military service on grounds
of short-sightedness. He fails.
But life goes on. Mme Verdurin still has her social receptions and
because of her friendships with politicians is sought after by people
hungry for news. Baron Charlus continues to express with wit and
elegance extreme, even outrageous, views on everything and to indulge
his vice as if nothing had changed. He's not even so anti-German as the
rest of the nation. He claims the public merely see things through the
eyes of their favourite newspaper and imagine they are thinking for
themselves.
Whilst out walking, the narrator bumps into Charlus, now visibly
ageing. In following him he also discovers a new Parisian haunt he
hadn't known about: Jupien's 'hotel', really a homosexual brothel
frequented by every kind of fetishist and staffed by a mixture of
louche characters and off duty soldiers. In a (surprsingly) hilariously
comic scene, he spies on Charlus having himself chained to a bed and
flagellated. The off-duty soldiers and underworld characters who
'staff' the brothel are richly amusing in their down-to-earth attitude
towards 'just another job'.
The grand finale takes up about half of the film. Returning to Paris
after the war, and after another prolonged stay of months and years in
a sanatorium when he has given up all hope of becoming a writer, the
narrator discovers he has been invited to a grand 'matinee' at the
Princesse de Guermantes, to celebrate the rebirth of social life.
Everyone is invited and is going to be there, despite receiving another
invitation to a party at the ageing La Berma's which, sadly,
everyone turns down.
But, he suddenly reveals to us, the Princesse de Guermantes giving
this reception is not the one we know... She died and the haughty
Prince, needing to refuel the family coffers, has married the wealthy
and tasteless widow we knew as Mme Verdurin...! And look what's
happened to this Rachel tart who made Saint-Loup so unhappy: she is now
a famous star and rival to La Berma.
On the way, and while waiting to be presented, he has in quick
succession four sudden experiences of "affective" or involuntary memory
memory, akin to the tea-cup episode we read of in Combray.
He stumbles on a paving stone and finds a happiness like he felt with
the madeleine. He instantly realises he was reminded of uneven stones
in the piazza San Marco in Venice, a memory that has been restored in
its entirety. Then, waiting to be presented in the library of the
Princesse, he hears the chink of a spoon hitting a plate. The same
feeling of joy returns, linked to a train stopped beside trees in the
country and investigated by a wheel-tapper. Thirdly he has a tactile
reminiscence brought by the touch of a serviette which has the same
kind of over-starched quality as the towels provided in the hotel in
Balbec and which brings back the seaside.
Finally he sees a copy of Francis le Champi by George Sand and recalls
his mother reading it to him. The film medium makes these
"resurrections" truly vivid, but it is important to recognise that that
is what they are. The narrator instantly (well... in 40 pages or so)
recognizes that only a work of art is capable of analysing these
sensations which are really signs inviting him to create a work of art
"the only means of regaining lost Time".
He reminds us that people exist not only in their physical reality
which is all that naturalist writers care or write about, but also in
the 'immaterial' dimension of Time. That these seemingly trivial and
forgotten memories have survived is a joy, for they have 'defeated'
Time the destroyer. But for the moment they are locked in his frail
body and will die with him. He feels a duty to exteriorize them and
realizes that such a reification of perhaps trivial experience is what
great works of art always are.
Speaking in his own name, he is somewhat derisive about the critics of
the first two volumes of his work. Left-wingers had spoken about his
snobbery and indifference to social evils, though he points out that
actually he is far more sympathetic to the beliefs of someone like the
general secretary of the CGT (communist trade union) than to those of
the Prince de Guermantes.
He also corrects those who spoke about his myopic attention to detail,
pointing out that actually he is looking at people through the wrong
end of a telescope, seeing them in the general terms that stand out
over time, rather than focussing on partial and necessarily incomplete
images of them.
On entering the salon he is astonished. It is as if he is surrounded
by stuffed marionettes, aged, wrinkly and greying caricatures of the
people he once knew. He meanders round the glittering reception in a
daze. These people he used to know have been made unrecognizable by the
passage of Time. They have all their old mannerisms, which now seem to
him ridiculous. But so too do newcomers like Mme de Farcy, a comic and
madly eager young American learning etiquette and family relationships.
The only person who hasn't changed is Odette, who amazingly, even
sometimes looks younger than her daughter. But she hasn't changed her
ways either and bored with her new husband and still social-climbing,
is mistress to the Duc.
This confirms him in his decision to write about them as he saw and
knew them, before it's too late. He is writing for the future, relaying
history as it was lived not as it was theorized. He is writing for
Gilberte's daughter.
The concert begins: the music and playing is wonderful; it completely
obliterates the cheap and nasty lives of the players, the composers and
the audience. Our delight in the musician's art make us momentarily
forget the insignificance of those who produce and consume it. (Take a
bow musical director Jorge Arriagada.)
The narrator's voice-over quotes explanatory passages from the novel
where he identifies the secret of his discovery - re-discovering the
lost paradise and imprisoning it outside of Time in the 'chain-links of
a beautiful style'. It's a kind of moral lecture in counterpoint to the
sumptuous decor and costumes.
The film's ending is pure cinema but 100% faithful to Proust's
message. As the music swells he returns to being a boy and walks down
to the vast beach at Balbec and, as it were, into the infinite sea
where he is going to be swallowed up by eternity, as all things must
be, but having left his immaterial monument ...in Time.
3. TIPS FOR WOULD BE PROUSTIANS (VIII)
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Here's the complete cast-list of the film in some kind of official
order, no idea what though. I've appended brief identification of each
character as an aide-memoire, and also as a souvenir to look at after
you've seen the film. I still wish I knew who the violinist was and
what the music is. The original score is by Jorge Arriagada and is
available on CD. The video of the film has been released but I haven't
got it yet.
Catherine Deneuve .... Odette de Crecy (Widow who first became Mme Swann,
now Comtesse de Forcheville and mistress of the
Duc de Guermantes.)
Emmanuelle Beart .... Gilberte (Swann's daughter and the narrator's
first love, now an old friend and married to Saint-Loup,
but deceiving him with Morel and Albertine.)
Vincent Perez .... Morel (bisexual violinist, vile, scheming rat,
Charlus' long-standing boyfriend, now the lover of
BOTH Gilberte and Saint-Loup - but separately!)
Pascal Greggory .... Robert de Saint-Loup (soldier and best friend;
turns bisexual; had the cheap Rachel for a mistress;
now deceiving his wife, Gilberte, with both her
and Morel.)
Marie-France Pisier ...Mme. Verdurin (Snob and bourgeois now, wealthily
widowed and now Princesse de Guermantes.)
Chiara Mastroianni ....Albertine (the obsessive object of the narrator's
love; her death is announced but turns out to be
untrue. The actress is the daughter of Catherine
Deneuve by Mastroianni.)
Arielle Dombasle .... Mme de Farcy (Enthusiastic young American anxious to
make no social gaffes but who mistakenly
assumes that people like the present Princesse
have breeding; a transatlantic marriage.)
Edith Scob .... Oriane de Guermantes (the divine Duchesse, the
narrator's idol and a friend of Swann.)
Elsa Zylberstein .... Rachel (star in the new generation of actresses,
rival to La Berma, once Saint-Loup's difficult
mistress, also suspected of lesbianism; cheap but
now famous and a friend of the Guermantes.)
Christian Vadim .... Bloch (Jewish childhood friend, now journalist.
Has changed his name to Jacques de Roziere
The actor is son of Catherine Deneuve by Vadim.)
Dominique Labourier ...Madame Cottard (Dim wife of doctor)
Philippe Morier-Genoud.Monsieur Cottard (Boring doctor who fequents Verdurin
salon and turns out to be a brilliant diagnostician.)
Melvil Poupaud .... Prince de Foix (Nobleman who also frequents
Jupien's homosexual brothel.)
Mathilde Seigner .... Celeste (Narrator's real servant in later life)
Jacques Pieller .... Jupien (ex-shirtmaker now brothel manager for Charlus)
Helene Surgere .... Francoise (Ferociously loyal family servant
in narrator's childhood and adolescence.)
Andre Engel .... Marcel adolescent
Georges Du Fresne .... Young Marcel
Monique Melinand .... Marcel's Grandmotherr
Laurence Fevrier .... Marcel's Mother
Jean-Francois Balmer ..Uncle Adolphe (Brother of narrator's grandfather)
Marcello Mazzarella ...Narrator (Look-alike who mimes his way brilliantly)
John Malkovich .... Baron Charlus (also Duc de Brabant, Prince d'Oleron,
Damoiselle de Montargis, etc., brother of the Duc de
Guermantes, haughty snob, wit, aphorist, closet
homosexual masochist who funds Jupien to run him a
brothel; lover of Morel and betrayed by him.)
Patrice Chereau .... Voice of the ageing narrator.
Lucien Pascal .... Prince de Guermantes (cousin of the Duc and
violent anti-semite; now married to Mme Verdurin)
Jerome Prieur .... Monsieur Verdurin (Dim wealthy half of the tasteless
bourgeois salon. Dies.)
Alain Robbe-Grillet ...Edmond de Goncourt (Real literary figure who
kept a rather boring journal pastiched at the start
of Time Regained.)
Jean-Claude Jay .... Duc de Guermantes (And now lover of Odette)
Camille Du Fresne .... Gilberte as a child
Alain Guillo .... The great designer
Bernard Garnier .... Marquis de Cambremer (brother-in-law of Legrandin)
Monique Couturier .... Marquise de Villeparisis (friend of narrator's
granny, runs a middling aristo salon, mistress
of Norpois, likes interfering in love-affairs.)
Alain Rimoux .... Monsieur Bontemps (Albertine's uncle; civil servant
and jusqu'au-boutiste during the war)
Isa Mercure .... Madame Bontemps (Albertine's aunt and guardian;
runs social life with Mme Verdurin during the war.)
Jean-Francois Lapalus .Head waiter, Cafe de la Paix
Damien O'Doul .... Gaspard, cook, Cafe de la Paix
Daniel Isoppo .... Hotel manager, Balbec
Patrice Juiff .... Young waiter, Balbec
Marine Delterme .... Morel's friend
Jean Badin .... Rachel's husband
Carl de Miranda .... Sailor at Jupien's
Herve Falloux .... Monsieur Redingote
Philippe Lehembre .... General (Sends the deserter Morel to the front.)
Rosita Mital .... Old maid
Philippe Gauguet .... Jupien's chauffeur
Bruno Guillot .... Military man, Cafe de la Paix
Francis Leplay .... Jupien's employee
Jacques Zeller .... Marcel's grandfather
Serge Dekramer .... Marcel's father
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre ... Gilberte's daughter (note the name of
the actress, descendent of a family Proust knew
well and which figures in the novel in disguise.)
Rene Marquant .... Comte d'Argencourt (Belgian charge d'affaires,
denounced by Morel but later realeased.)
Romain Sellier .... Charles's friend, Cafe de la Paix
Alain Duclos .... Uncle Adolphe's valet (Morel's father)
Christian Magis .... Blind man
5. READERS' LETTERS
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It was nice to note that Louis Barfe still still cares for the
well-being of Scan. I do not think that I have ever been accused of
hiding my light under a bushel before but it is true that my written
contributions to Scan can be counted on one hand. If the election had
been for a chief features writer I would not have stood.
I have no great desire to recite my hustings speech (however lyrical it
was) but I believe that the qualities that I bring to the job will help
to ensure that students are kept informed of what is going on in the
university and the union and how their money is being (mis)spent.
I have no great desire to go into journalism as a career. However I do
appreciate the importance of methods of communication for all
representative groups and indeed for ex-students in East(?) London.
I belive that I will be able, perhaps because of my knowledge of the
university and the union, gained from sitting on those various exciting
bodies such as union council and F&GP, to keeep Scan as independent as
possible and to constantly ask WHY? Any advice from Louis on such
matters would of course be ever so welcome.
Rory Daly
County College
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Given that the University seems likely to ask Jon Moulton (Furness,
1973, Chemistry) for more donations, do you think that they could ask
if the HEDC could have a car whilst they're at it? It would come in
really handy, and he does appear to have quite a few spare ones.
Yours in anticipation,
Michael Cowie
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Readers might be interested in the following:
"INSTITUTIONS FAILING TO RECOVER COSTS OF RESEARCH: A new report from The
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) warns of a big gap
between the funding and the costs of academic research. For externally
funded research, it was found that higher education institutions
receive a range of contributions to indirect costs depending on the
type of sponsor: charities zero; government agencies c40%; industrial
20-110%; research councils 45%.
In most cases the cost of the research far outstrips the price put on
it. What issues need to be addressed? Find out more at
http://www.accountingeducation.com/news/news924.html " [AP].
I haven't looked at how this was worked out, so I cannot comment on
its scientific status. But if true one assumes that there are serious
budgetary implications, and raises the issue of the relation of
academic accounting to real world accounting. It may also mean that
hard science research is not worth the cost of the empty labs with
non-existent students in them. I wonder if there are any other
implications which readers feel are worthy of debate?
Jeremy Valentine
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