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“it would mean that our affection for them had been so utterly obliterated from our heart … that we would be to take pleasure in a life without them … it would amount to a death of our self, albeit followed by a resurrection, but a resurrection in the form of a different self, whose love will remain forever beyond the reach of those part of the former self that have gone down to death.” anyway YAY the train!

“through the liquid transparency an glossy luminosity of the shadow cast on her sunshade” and “…whenever i want to read off from a sundial of remembrance the minutes between a quarter past twelve and one o clock on a fine day in may, [a] glimpse of myself chatting with Mme Swann, sharing her sunshade AS THOUGH STANDING WITH HER IN THE PALE GLOW OF AN ARBOR OF WISTERIA”??)? fuck youiui marcel

i keep updating 5 pages at a time but that’s how many i can get read on my ten minute commute. i WILL finish this before end of year