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July 03, 2007
Shared obsessions and home decor 101
In getting ready for our anniversary, I've been reading through our early chronicles. Starting with the time leading up to our first date and continuing through the present (Vol. VII just came out!), Tim (and I, since we got married) has kept a chronicle of our life together.
Anyway, I had forgotten some of the details of what inspired his first attraction to me, beyond our shared faith. It's such a quirky list that it really shows me God's providence in bringing us together (who else would have a list like this??). Among the things that sparked his interest were:
*the fact that I had read Dickens' novel Dombey and Son
*my love for writing fugues
*our shared interest in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (the inspiration for our blog title)--neither of us have quite made it through the 3,000+ page novel, but we're both still working on it (Tim has passed me now!)
*our mutual love of travel
*my love for Tolkien (before the films, cough, cough)
*the use of semicolons in my SIP/senior thesis
The beginnings of my attraction to Tim? Well, it didn't involve any use of semicolons. :-) But his love for music, literature, and travel were definitely a huge part of it. Plus watching him covered in cute kids every week at church definitely caught my attention.
Anyway, some of our shared obsessions are making it into our house decor. Before his solo trip to London in 2001 (a life-changing experience for him, I should have him tell some of his stories on this blog) and before our joint trip to Paris in 2005, Tim found pictures of London and Paris that he loved and blew them up into posters on his printer. He had put them away since we got married, but now we have tons of blank, mundane wall space begging for some color. So, our house is looking like something in between a museum and a tourist trap! But it really reflects us!
On our fireplace, we have our Dickens and Shakespeare collection, flanked by each of our copies of In Search of Lost Time.
Over Dickens, we've hung up a picture of The Old Curiosity Shop, the Globe Theater hangs above Shakespeare, and a Parisian art nouveau metro stop coordinates with the covers of Proust.
Fun times!
Literature | By Tim and Jo | 03:05 PM
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