Judgement from which there is no appeal

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Fri Jan 15 14:41:16 CST 1999


Is this fine sounding phrase, which occurs on the second page of GR, one
that is used elsewhere or normally in English? I don't recall having 
heard it but when I was looking at Proust to see what Mlle Vinteuil and
her friend were up to I kept on reading and ran across almost the exact
same phrase at the rather momentous point in the book where the narrator
first expresses his thoughts about his future as a writer and is having
existential fears about his place in the universe--or actually the words
used by the translator in his rendering of " . . . un realite qui n'etait
pas faite pour moi, contre laquelle il n'y avait pas de recours . . " 
(1981 Vintage Books edition (Vol I, p. 189, Combray) but probably not
different from the earlier Random House edition.) Anyway . . . 

		P.




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