By the light of a dining-room lamp, a conversation takes place in which wisdom, “the wisdom, if not of nations at least of families,” seizes on some event and “places it under the magnifying glass of memory,” creating new perspectives, rearranging events in time and space.
Marcel Proust, The Fugitive, trans. Peter Collier (London: Penguin, 2003).
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Thursday, April 15, 2021
“Merely contingent”
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