Searching For Lost Time

Hello!

My name is Dzul Haniff and this is my blog!
Was born in Johor, Malaysia and currently 19 years old.

I'm very fond of reading and if you can tell, you can see on the title of my blog, I'm just ripping off the title to Marcel Proust's book, A la recherche du temps perdu, which in English translates to In Search Of Lost Time.

Marcel proust

In truth, I haven't really read A la recherche du temps perdu, but I have read A Tale For The Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. In the book, the character Nao used a notebook that was made by ripping the cover of A la recherche du temps perdu, and conjoining it to a blank notebook.

From Friday Book Design Blog: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/03/15/friday-book-design-blog-a-tale-for-the-time-being-by-ruth-ozeki/i

In the story, Nao is a Japanese teenager who's trying to make a memoir of sorts of her grandmother, and found it coincidental that she decided to pick up the notebook without knowing the meaning of the title and found out that in some way, both her and Marcel were trying to do the same thing, to recapture lost time.

I found it intriguing as well. In a way, through writing, all of us are trying to recapture lost time. We are putting into words, our memories and thought, in to something we hope will last longer than us, be it on a book or a blog, in hopes that it can be read by people separated from us by time. Through this written medium, I can speak to you, whilst transcending the barriers of time. Even if I'm no longer here, you can still read this, the manifestation of my thoughts, which hopefully will live longer than myself.

Which is why I think that it is fitting that I named the tittle of my blog as so. First, as an ode to Marcel Proust and his beautiful mind and second, to convey my reasoning to make this blog, to capture time itself.