Adeel’s Reviews > A Reader's Guide to Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' > Status Update

"it is possible to read the entirety of noms de pays: le pays as an intricate series of variations on one common theme: that of habit (or custom – in French, habitude). This motif, which Proust first discovered in the fourth chapter of John Ruskin’s modern Painters II (1846) is the psychological nodal point around which the second section of a l’ombre organizes itself." Accurate, I just went back to check