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Within a Budding Grove: Paris is a Lonely Town: 01/14/10
I'm now up to page 240 in Within a Budding Grove. The last thirty pages have been filled with the highs and lows of young love. Still chewing on his new perception of Bergotte, the protagonist begins to re-examine all his relationships including the one he has with Gilberte.
In my last post for Swann's Way I compared the love struck Charles Swann with Thomas O'Malley from The Aristocats. Now I'm drawn again to an animated cat film, this time Gay Purr-ee (1964). In it, a young cat runs off to Paris seeking romance and fortune after a
spat with her mouser boyfriend, Jaune-Tom. Realizing his own foolishness and the danger Mewsette is putting herself in, he makes the long walk to Paris to win back her heart.
For Jaune-Tom the journey is a long one and the reunion with his beloved is a path filled pit-falls. In his time away from Mewsette, she must fend for herself and grows in the process. At one particularly grim time in her life she laments through song that "Paris is a Lonely Town."
Sung beautifully by Judy Garland the song captures perfectly the emotional turmoil that the protagonist is feeling as things become rocky between himself and Gilberte. Below is a clip from the Jack Paar Show with Judy Garland singing "Paris is a Lonely Town."
See you back next week for my thoughts on pages 241-270.
