Against the Day of Lost Time

[Paul Mackin]

On Feb 26, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:

>
> 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.


Oops, my bad. Faulty memory.

The phrase "time regained" does occur in the  book (p. 551) but not  
juxtaposed with  "against the day."

And the meaning  of the phase is quite negative and not at all as in  
the Proustian sense which was the thread's point of reference I believe.

Miles has noticed that over the tragic Belgian low lands that "time  
regained  its opacity."

In contradistinction to the dimension of time's  seeming transparency  
and clarity (for Miles) over Shambhala.

P.