The narrator has tried to set the elevator operator straight. But the operator still thinks cheese.
Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah, trans. John Sturrock (New York: Penguin, 2005).
The lift’s need for logic and clarity is one small source of comedy in the novel. There are many, many others.
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