To Have and To Hold by Philipp Blom

Author:Philipp Blom [BLOM, PHILIPP]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SOC005000, HIS054000, ANT000000
ISBN: 9781468302189
Publisher: Overlook
Published: 2012-03-17T04:00:00+00:00

Part III

Incantations

And suddenly the memory returns. The taste was that of the little crumb of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray … when I went to say good day to her in her bedroom, my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of real or of lime-flower tea … But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.

Marcel Proust, À la recherche du temps perdu1

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