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Eliot accomplishes what D. H. Lawrence gave her credit for doing before any other novelist: “It was she who started putting all the action inside.”

The loss of books, at least, was compensated for by new ones sent from home. “We should be miserable without books, and our old lot has been read and reread times out of number,” Thornie wrote to Lewes, in thanks for a shipment. “I can tell you that good novels bear rereading.”
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"And then a new light, less dazzling, no doubt, than that other illumination which had made me perceive that the work of art was the sole means of rediscovering Lost Time, shone suddenly within me." p.304

Ch. 2 & 3, Jerusalem and Mission... a beautiful telling of the story, immersed in time, place and people.

Loving all the piano elements, and Debussy and Chopin’s music.

The narrator revisiting all the characters that have been with us throughout... seeing change, development,... through time and a new level of understanding in the narrator too.

Chapter 1 - Athens, provided a great overview of Greek, Persian and Roman history in the 500 years before Christ.

"...like Dostoievsky, instead of presenting things in their logical sequence, that is to say beginning with the cause, shows us first of all the effect, the illusion that strikes us."
p.510

"For the instinct of imitation and absence of courage govern society and the mob alike." p.452

"What troubled me now was the discovery that almost every house sheltered some unhappy person." p.509

"For just as it is not the desire to become famous but the habit of being industrious that enables us to produce a finished work, so it is not the activity of the present moment but wise reflections from the past that help us safeguard the future."
p.538