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The words "Florentine painting" were invaluable to Swann. They enabled him (gave him, as it were, a legal title) to introduce the image of Odette into a world of dreams and fancies which, until then, she had been debarred from entering, and where she assumed a new and nobler form. (p.256).

I had a terrifying nightmare or something a couple nights ago where I was trying to get the awful Verdurins to my home for a dinner party and they had to walk all the way to Rapid through the desolation north of Hartville, WY. Puts a lot of pressure on a woman's orzo I'll tell you that