Général de Froberville, the Marquis de Bréauté, Charles Swann, and an observer:
Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way, trans. Lydia Davis (New York: Viking, 2002).
Each man in this scene wears a monocle. Individual monocles, as seen from Swann’s perspective, are the subject of extensive description before and after this sentence.
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Friday, December 25, 2020
An observer observed observing
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