NP: Proust - Cities of the Plain

[Glenn Scheper]

What thread, what thread?
Robin's post circa pg 505 as I recall turned me on to...

Title: Cities of the Plain
(Sodom et Gomorrhe)
[Vol. 4 of Remembrance of Things Past--
(À la Recherche du temps perdu)]
Author: Marcel Proust
  -- http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300491.txt

Introducing the men-women, descendants of those of the inhabitants of
Sodom who were spared by the fire from heaven.
  -- http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300491.txt


	Is this a Dally / Kit / ship parallel?

The stations on the "Transatlantic"--Weary of Albertine, I decide to break
with her.
  -- http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300491.txt


	Promises of AF, but which I discerned not, in as much as I read...

... so an exceptional act of autofecundation comes at a
given point to apply its turn of the screw, its pull on the curb,
brings back within normal limits the flower that has exaggerated its
transgression of them.

My reflexions had followed a tendency which I
shall describe in due course, and I had already drawn from the visible
stratagems of flowers a conclusion that bore upon a whole unconscious
element of literary work,
  -- http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300491.txt


BTW, my dentist, an English major, corrected me in this:
Proust sounds as uuu not aowww (Proof, not Proud).


Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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