Against the Day of Lost Time
Paul Mackin
paul.mackin at verizon.net
Mon Feb 26 09:23:20 CST 2007
On Feb 26, 2007, at 9:10 AM, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
> "At many moments in our lives, we would barter the
> whole of the future against a power in itself insignificant.
>
> "It was no longer as of some delectable land where the
> people are pensive, the sunsets golden, the carillons sad
> that I now thought of Trieste, but as an accursed city that I
> would have liked instantly to have burned down and
> erased from the real world. That town had been lodged in
> my heart like a permanent arrowhead."
>
> Marcel Proust: Sodom and Gomorrah, pgs 504,505
Is it my overly febrile imagination at work or does the phrase
"against the day of time regained" appear in AtD?
If it doesn't it should.
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