A rivalry, a quartet, a church? on the first page? That's odd, no? she asked. And Marcel Proust said "Yes! My lovely little phrase- she is famous now?!'
I figured it would be helpful here to include the first and last paragraphs of ISOLT, both in English and French, since I’m such a sucker for them, and since my whole theory is based on them.
Swann’s Way – English
For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out Continue reading “ISOLT Excerpt: First and Last Paragraphs”
For there were, in the environs of Combray, two ‘ways’ which we used to take for our walks, and so diametrically opposed that we would actually leave the house by a different door, according to the way we had chosen: the way towards Méséglise-la-Vineuse, which we called