“Every woman feels that, the greater is her power over a
man, the more her only way of leaving him is just to take flight. She becomes a fugitive precisely because she
was a queen, this inevitable” (8).
“Suffering, as the aftermath of an unwelcome moral shock,
aspires to change form . . . “(13).
Pg 15 he takes a little girl home to sit on his lap. WTF?
Saint-Loup seems to find Albertine unattractive. There seems to be a belittling tone since
Albertine left.
“In short, Albertine, like a stone covered in snow, was no
more than the core of an immense
construction elaborated by my heart” (22).
Pg 44 La Berme dies.
He notes this in passing.
“But a woman whom we are keeping does not seem to us to be a
kept woman as long as we know that she is not being kept by anyone else” (51).
Pg 54 acknowledges that Francoise might have something to do
with Albertine leaving.
God, how he belittles her.
Manipulative bastard.
Go parents of the little girl. Dude, you took a little girl off the street
for her to sit on your lap. It’s good
that you are now afraid to do that again.
Saint-Loup is plotting to get someone fired because why?
Pg 64 Albertine is apparently dead. I am surprisingly pissed off at this
news. I mean if she is really dead, she
was fridged before Gail coined the term fridged. And now we have more sads.
“In such moments, connecting my grandmother’s death with
that of Albertine, it seemed to be me that my life was besmirched by a double
murder for which the only the cowardice of society could forgive me” (85).
And you take little girls off the street to sit on your
lap.
Pg 88 – Marcel notes the similarity to Swann. So he is aware of his desire or slight hero
worship. I am not even sure that it is
hero worship. He just seemed to find
Swann admirable in some way. I think
that’s why he was “in love” with Gilberte.
Who he is still mentioning.
“Yet after a certain age out loves and our mistresses are
daughters of our anguish: our past and the physical lesion written whose line
lines it lies inscribed, determine our future” (94).
I’m really angry at Albertine is dead. I need to get that Anne Carson book that popped
up on the Goodreads feed – the poems about Albertine. Pamphlet book.
I’m glad that the young girl who had to sit on his lap had
parents that stood up for her and reported him to the police. But now he has been traumatized by the
experience. Dude, maybe you should leave
young girls alone.
It is making think about Consent by Vanessa Springora
because if that is about how relationships with young girls were viewed. The police inspector looks the other
way.
For some reason I don’t really believe Aime with all the
stories about Albertine and the ladies.
It feels like he is saying what Marcel the narrator wants to hear.
“It is perhaps in this way that a kind of cutting taken from
a person and grafted on to another person’s heart continues to live on when the
person whom it has been detached has perished” (115).
This first chapter after the death of Albertine where he is
even spying on her after death is creepy.
“The problem with people is that for us they are no more
than prints in our mental museum, which fade on exposure” (151).
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