the thing about Proust
Jul. 2nd, 2025 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
giantsilkmothis that sometimes he's writing about French social manners which i have limited patience for and then he brings out the most incisive, unique, beautiful sentiment you've ever read
some bits living in my head from Combray I and the beginning of Combray II:
- the bit about how in bed at night space melts away completely
- the whole extended bit where he talks about his horror at his parents realizing he was going to be a sad, weird child forever
- the madeleine bit of course, though more specifically, the visual way he describes memory as a theater set that is suddenly connected to its surroundings
- the description of his aunt's tea where he talks about how, since it's not a factory-made blend, all the individual leaves create this pile-up of detail and desiccated life
some bits living in my head from Combray I and the beginning of Combray II:
- the bit about how in bed at night space melts away completely
- the whole extended bit where he talks about his horror at his parents realizing he was going to be a sad, weird child forever
- the madeleine bit of course, though more specifically, the visual way he describes memory as a theater set that is suddenly connected to its surroundings
- the description of his aunt's tea where he talks about how, since it's not a factory-made blend, all the individual leaves create this pile-up of detail and desiccated life
