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The Proust Question

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?!'

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Posted on December 8, 2023February 22, 2024

Saint Marcel, author of the book

Okay, a word about all the church stuff. Archbishops, saints, churches, resurrection.

I’m not proselytizing here. I’m talking in a fictional sense. And I think the same could be said for Continue reading “Saint Marcel, author of the book”

Posted on December 1, 2023February 22, 2024

ISOLT Excerpt: The Two Ways

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

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