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On mistaken impressions and the like, the narrator says at one point, “What we remember of our conduct remains unknown to our nearest neighbor; the things we had forgotten we had said, or even those we never did say, travel far off to provoke hilarity on another planet” (266). Is Proust misunderstood by aliens? Are we? Do we misunderstand them? Should I be thinking about such things in the midst of this novel?
— Apr 12, 2025 07:43AM
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From a meditation on sleep: “Not far from this point is the private garden in which various kinds of sleep, so different from one another, grow like unknown flowers: sleep induced by datura, by Indian hemp, by the multiple extracts of ether, the sleep of belladonna, of opium, of valerian” (80).
— Apr 05, 2025 03:52AM
