Things, the narrator tells us, “at the moment we notice them, turn within us into something immaterial, akin to all the preoccupations or sensations we have at that particular time, and mingle indissolubly with them.”
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again, trans. Ian Patterson (London: Penguin, 2003).
An elementary-school kid takes my place when I read Alvin’s Secret Code; a middle-schooler, when I read Deathman, Do Not Follow Me.
See also this Proust passage.
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Friday, April 30, 2021
“A child immediately rises up”
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