Status Updates From Du côté de chez Swann

blah blah blah, a few pages are enough to put me to sleep. I will say that Proust has a gift for descriptions, but geez, move things along already.

"Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all, but a drawback, and would pity so as not to have to envy them."