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A review by casparb
The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
Back to Proust heres vol.3 & what a joy! To be with him again. It's been a couple years since I hit volume two which was a struggle at the time so there was some consternation going in but amazing amazing work Proust is the scholar of memory & here he is remembering
Words do not change their meaning over the centuries as much as names do for us in the space of a few years. Our memories and our hearts are not large enough to remain faithful. We have not room enough, in our present mental space, to keep the dead alongside the living. We are obliged to build on top of what has gone before and is unearthed only by a chance excavation
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Words do not change their meaning over the centuries as much as names do for us in the space of a few years. Our memories and our hearts are not large enough to remain faithful. We have not room enough, in our present mental space, to keep the dead alongside the living. We are obliged to build on top of what has gone before and is unearthed only by a chance excavation
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