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I half attempted it at age 19. I think I need to go back and read it properly now.

A la recherche du temps perdu- Marcel Proust. Has anyone ever read it?

I think GNHQ are all lost ?

Or stuffing themselves with mince pies ? and mulled wine ?

Lost in France ......

I got excited (!!) when I saw the revival of this thread but it seems to have lost the plot somewhat.

Or even perdu(e)

Being lost certainly is tough. I got lost in the maze at Longleat once, truly, truly scary.

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Thank you.

That should be “guillotined” not “guided”

When a book is bound (properly) large sheets are printed with the pages, these are then folded and stitched, - I think it may be 8 at a time, finally the edges are guided/ trimmed so that the pages are separate.
Cheap paperbacks are usually gummed I think but this applies to hard backs and the “better” editions of soft backs.
You could Google it.
“The sheets are folded down to make a “gathering.” In earlier times, printers and binders often did not trim the edges, choosing to issue their books with the edges uncut and the gatherings unopened (the Spanish term for this is intonso)..”

MawBe

The publishing house Gallimard used to (maybe still does -*Kali 2* would you know?) used to publish its soft backed books with the pages “uncut” - so you had to cut them yourself and it was a bit of a giveaway if you pretended you had read the book but the pages were still uncut.

How do you mean "uncut" please?

re. underlining of verbs etc. When I helped DS2 with assignments for his OU French course, he would email me his script and I had no trouble at all using editing features on MS Word to suggest alternative vocabulary or correct a verb ending. I'd done the course many years before him! After all that, he got about 1% more than I did.

The publishing house Gallimard used to (maybe still does -*Kali 2* would you know?) used to publish its soft backed books with the pages “uncut” - so you had to cut them yourself and it was a bit of a giveaway if you pretended you had read the book but the pages were still uncut.

ElderlyPerson

MawBe

Ellianne

Ah yes, but at least we read them in the target language in our day. I've known a few who just buy the penguin translations to do their studies! Hmmm.

Unlike one chap I knew, I never made the mistake of taking the Penguin version to tutorials!
The other give away was have the Gallimard NRF version (but forget to cut the pages!)

What is that about please?

Taking texts to tutorials.

MawBe

Ellianne

Ah yes, but at least we read them in the target language in our day. I've known a few who just buy the penguin translations to do their studies! Hmmm.

Unlike one chap I knew, I never made the mistake of taking the Penguin version to tutorials!
The other give away was have the Gallimard NRF version (but forget to cut the pages!)

What is that about please?

Ellianne

Ah yes, but at least we read them in the target language in our day. I've known a few who just buy the penguin translations to do their studies! Hmmm.

Unlike one chap I knew, I never made the mistake of taking the Penguin version to tutorials!
The other give away was have the Gallimard NRF version (but forget to cut the pages!)

It's hard to study the great works, especially those in foreign languages, when you are only 18 and have little experience of life.

Ah yes, but at least we read them in the target language in our day. I've known a few who just buy the penguin translations to do their studies! Hmmm.

Ellianne

Sacré bleu!
And to think I used to know all the quotes par coeur!

But doesn’t it bring back happy memories? Even if I cringe at how facile some of my comments must have been ???

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Sacré bleu!
And to think I used to know all the quotes par coeur!

I would never write in a novel I was reading for pleasure, but annotating a text is an essential part of literary study.