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"She was one of those women whose hand it is such a pleasure to take and hold that one is grateful to civilized convention for having made the handshake a licit act between young men and girls when they meet."

As much as I am enjoying this series PROUST just goes on and on. It no surprise to me he used to smoke opium, very sleepy drone tone throughout the book.

This translation is so much better than the Monclief (spelling?) version of Swann's Way that I laboured through last year. I only wish I knew of the Lydia Davis translation at the time! Though, her Madame Bovary didn't exactly blow my little mind away, though I must admit the book wasn't quite my cup of tea anyways.

Swan's Way was the last book I started in 2012 and the first that I finished in 2013. I think I will make a yearly tradition of this.