ok, Proust reference and, I was thinking of Miles - hmm, it takes him back to before birth, ok, previous lives, yada yada, "even before conception" - well, of course... but then it struck me, maybe _right_ before conception, if his father was uncircumcised, the reference to the odor of Smegmo... eewww - no wonder Lindsay invokes the T.A.L.P.