Table of Contents - Issue #6

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Proust Said That is the unofficial organ of the hopelessly unofficial Marcel Proust Support Group of San Francisco. Until this issue, I could call this publication utterly unacademic, but we are graced this time with the excellent contribution of a genuine professor of Proustiana, Jerry Farber, who addresses the issue of English translations, a subject about which there have been many queries. Otherwise, we content ourselves principally in this issue with tales of the travels of your editor, publisher, principle writer and what-all, Miss P, with a fair amount to be said concerning the life of Marcel Proust, his interests, his words, and a few other things.

There are many people who must be thanked here for their immense assistance with issue #6. The unexpected gift of a ticket to Berlin from the lovely Maid Marian Goddell, and the equally unexpected gift of a plane flight to Paris from the wonderful Konstanze Kriese of Berlin made these stories possible. All the friends who contributed to the "Send PST to Europe" fundraiser, Alex Segal, whose contribution brought me back from Europe without starvation, and the delightful Leslee Sumner, who made my stay in New York so very entertaining, all have my undending thanks. As always, thanks to Dean Gustafson for drawing the Paris I saw but could not render myself, and to Bruno, the mysterious photographer at Pere Lachaise, for the photographs at Proust's grave.

I could not fail to mention the contributions of Cynsa Bonorris and Jeffrey Gray, who put each issue on the Internet, and help so much with the mysteries of computer life. Cynsa has a new web page herself (www.fixe.com) to delight you when you have finished with the online PST. And thanks to my housemate Gavin, who learned about scanning by doing it for me, and Miss Maureen Jennings, who found all my errors, and offered superlative editing advice.

This issue's unusual cover comes to us from Professor Jost Funke, the delightful artist I met across the table at the elegant dinner in Berlin for the German Proust Society. He very graciously said he would be honored to do a cover, and I am very honored to have it.

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