“Once more, as when I had stopped seeing Gilberte, a love
for women surged up within me, freed of any exclusive association with a
particular woman once loved, and wafted like those essences liberated by death
and decay and which float suspended in the spring breeze, asking only to be
united with some new entity” (156).
“And sometimes reading a rather sad novel carried me suddenly backward, for some
novels are like a period of great mourning which abolishes habit and puts us
once more in touch with the reality of life, but for a few ours only, as does a
nightmare for the force of habit, the oblivion that it procures and the gaiety that it restores as the brain
is unable to resist them and reestablish the truth are infinitely stronger than
event he most hypnotic suggestions of a beautiful book, which, like all
suggestions, have a fleeting effect” (156-157).
He talks of holding a secret over the girl, the one he
believes to be d’Eporcherville. He is
willing to blackmail her and besmirch her reputation just because he wants
sex.
Forchevile = Gilberte
“We have only formless, fragmented visions of the world,
which we fill out with arbitrary associations of ideas, creating dangerous
suggestions” (170).
Odette left a rich widow who mourns and then marries
Forcheville.
On Mme Guermaantes deciding to met Odette and Gilberte after
the death of Swann, “For whereas three-quarters of the human race flatters the
living and take no notice of the dead, she often put on a performance for those
she had mistreated doing their lifetime once they were dead” (175).
How could Bergotte read it when Bergotte died last book?
“It is not because others have died that our affection for
them weakens, it is because we ourselves are dying” (194).
“ . . as beautiful as an angel but as wicked as a witch”
(236).
Jupien’s niece dies of typhoid.
Saint Loup is gay? Well that explains much.
The Venice passage was lovely.
I feel sorry for Gilberte.
Marcel doesn’t really seem to like women and is basically a
man whore.
Poor Jupien’s niece who doesn’t even get given a name. Poor women in this book. IT does pick up some of the same these as
Sodom. He is obsessed with
homosexuality.
Saint-loup taking up with Morel is a bit strange.
The telegram mistake seems a bit far fetched. It’s like reading the accounts from the
Titanic sinking where the British say everyone who was American or English
acted heroically but those Italians didn’t .
Marcel is like Venice doesn’t do telegrams.
Marcel is so self centered.
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